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Peavy C-600 Network Speaker Cabinet

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John Pons

Dec 7, 2023
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Have 2 of these. Each has 2 15" Black Widows. Had to wire the horns and piezos separately for best bi-amp sound. Surprisingly excellent quality bass punch from 15's and the thin sound of 2 piezos with 2 horns are brilliantly clean and clear. Together any music genre from cd mixer bi-amped from a 1600 watt Peavy Amp separately to the hi and lo are great. Peavy Amp has subwofer switch that won't allow anything but bass guitar, kick or tuba for example.
I cannot find photo anywhere of this C-600 from late 60 to 70's. Maybe custom made?
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Well, I have one piece of pertinent information -- C-600 Network is the model designation of the NETWORK, which is to say, the passive crossover, which you're basically not using when biamping the cab. I don't know what the model designation of that cab is. [Edit:] It was intended to be a PA cab.

Also: in what way are the Pyle drivers considered Peavey Black Widows? And, the second horn, referring to the one that does not have Peavey markings, is not a factory original item either, is it?

Edit: Is that second horn even hooked up? No matter what it is, if it works, it's likely that it would provide better HF performance than that Peavey dual-reentrant horn that was original equipment.

Edit 2: Still another observation -- this cab wouldn't have had Black Widows in it, given the 150-watt power rating. I'm not certain they had even developed the Black Widow driver at the time this cab was originally sold.
 
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And yet another observation: if you're just using the LOW input of the bi-amp portion of the network, you're not actually bi-amping anything. Bi-amping implies using an external crossover and two amplifier channels. You're simply feeding a full range signal directly to the two 15" drivers and bypassing the horn(s) and tweeters. Given the nature of those devices, that's probably for the best. :D
 
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Was there a second public announcement squawk horn on the other side originally? Saw a box like that at the local Music Go Round but it wore the classic Acoustic badge and colors. And wouldn't be surprised that those 15s are early Pyle (OEM by Eminence or CTS) car speakers. Got 4 Pyle Pounders hanging on nails on the wall, look the same. No one used Pyle speakers in band cabinets. And don't expect anything on the bottom from a front load horn, the horn "flaps" aren't even exponential, they're boards. These were probably made for vocal PA in their original form, primarily for appearance, and a nightmare to EQ. Didn't get sick, just laughed myself into a coughing fit!
 
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People are giving you a little bit of grief here, but here's what's happening: it is indeed "custom made," but not in the way you may be thinking.

You have what started life as a Peavey "Vocal Projector" 215HT. This is a fairly inexpensive and not particularly desirable PA speaker cabinet that contained a "C600 Network" Crossover. Looks like they go for about $100 each in good condition on the used market.

Under no circumstances did this ever have a Black Widow speaker in it, and given the fact that the speakers are clearly labeled as "Pyle Driver" I am not sure why you think they are Peavey Black Widows. They are Pyle "Driver" MH1540s, a perfectly serviceable 15" woofer, but nothing special. They are fairly commonly used as replacements in older cabinets because they sound fine and for many years were by a fairly wide margin the cheapest 15" bass guitar speaker you could buy. At some point, someone also replaced one of the upper loudspeaker horn type deals with another Pyle offering and a piece of OSB.

If it sounds good to you, that's what matters - I love me some loud, cheap, busted up old gear, but this is, as described above, a "frankencab" that someone hacked together from very inexpensive parts.
 
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I had to laugh, as well jamming an ice pick in my ear so I could remember what those Peavey horns sounded like. A pawn shop near me have a Behringer 8x10 bass cab on the floor that has several of the 10s replaced with Pyle speakers, which are plainly visible through the grill and not at all neatly arranged. I'm trying to figure out if it might be an improvement or not. I'm not in the market for any more large bass cabs or I'd go unleash the beast and give it a try!
 
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bassbrad said:
Last time I saw those cabs was at a Knights Of Columbus or SPJST Hall in the middle of nowhere Texas in the dark and dank 70's dance hall gigs, oh the horror
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"70's Dance Hall of Horror"
 
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