SUNN 215BH

[Derplap]

Hey all - what do we think of the drivers in this Sunn 215BH? Someone is selling it for $200. They say they don't know what drivers are in it and have reported "whatever it came with". Just wondering... could they be JBL D140 or K140s? Apparently it's a 1994 cab, which makes me think it wouldn't have been shipped with either. Any thoughts/insights?

 

[BasturdBlaster]

The giant Sunn 215BH cab that I owned had Sunn labeled square magnet drivers.
Like this....

 

[Redbrangus]

If it's a '94 cab (is it??), it wouldn't have had stock JBL drivers -- I'm pretty sure JBL drivers had become economically unviable well before that time.

 

[agedhorse]

It could be anything in a used cabinet.

 

[eniac]

I ran one of those cabs in the mid-1970s. Bought new. That thing weighed a ton. We used to use it as a "super dolly" to roll heavy stuff in & out of clubs. The sound was dry and boring, with almost no bottom end, but I don't know if that was due to the drivers, the cab design itself, the Concert Bass head I was using it with, or a combination of all three. I would hate to have to model that cab to find a suitable pair of modern drivers for it. I wouldn't know where to begin.

 

[Michedelic]

Hey all - what do we think of the drivers in this Sunn 215BH? Someone is selling it for $200. They say they don't know what drivers are in it and have reported "whatever it came with". Just wondering... could they be JBL D140 or K140s? Apparently it's a 1994 cab, which makes me think it wouldn't have been shipped with either. Any thoughts/insights?

Those cabs were from the mid-70’s, long after founder Conrad Sundholm had sold the company to a conglomerate, and long after they stopped using JBL products. If the drivers in the cab are still original, they may be the proprietary ‘Sunn Transducers’, or Eminence OEM’s; they’ll work if you don’t push them, but they’re not exceptional.

 

[Stylee Mousse]

Great cabs. I ran a 215B for many years with the 100 watt square backs that had the 2” voice coils.

My friend ran a 215BH with non JBL 15s that did have aluminum dust caps. It was also nice.

Give us a link or pictures?

 

[Stylee Mousse]

I would hate to have to model that cab to find a suitable pair of modern drivers for it. I wouldn't know where to begin.

I have a pair of Sunn clone 115 cabs now with have the same design as half of the center slot “fake horn” version of the Sunn 200s. With is a lot like the 215BH. One has a D140 and the other an eminence legend. Both sound quite good.

so I’d begin with a legend.

 

[agedhorse]

Those look like Eminence drivers to me. There should be a manufacturer's code stamped in ink on them somewhere

The drivers pictured aren’t the OP’s.

 

[Ggaa]

At some point(late 70s maybe)I saw some Sunn PA cabs another band had, drivers had white dust caps. From across the room they looked like JBLs.