WHY!!!!!

[brianrost]

Reminds me of the time Yamaha thought it was a clever idea to make a speaker driver the shape of an ear.

Fender used a Yamaha woofer like that in the Bantam Bass amplifier, which are stupid rare because so few were sold.

Yamaha used these speakers in their own amps as well.

 

[ubernator]

Of course Yamaha designed them for instrument amp application.

Sony square woofers? Not so much

That would be like pulling the woofers out of a home stereo to reload a bass cab. It might work, but it is basically "ghetto".

HiFi woofers designed for playing recorded music in a relatively small space, not quite up to the task of drivers in a bass cabinet.

But when I was 16 and got a new set of cerwin Vega D3 to go with my Kenwood 60w receiver, and man did that thing blast my house. So I remember thinking it would be cool to set up my stereo on stage at Irvine meadows and people in the back would hear it. I outgrew such ignorance quickly. Somebody destroyed cabinets from the best era of swr because of such ignorance.

But then again people support trump and.Clinton so go figure...

 

[DanAdams]

I wouldn't be surprised if there were a somewhat logical answer. Like he had a cabinet with bad speakers, and maybe he also had access to a whole bunch of stupid square speakers from Dad's crappy old stereo.
I've made some dumb mods on broken basses just because I had a bunch of parts hanging around my shop. I put a G&L neck on a plywood Hondo, Why, because I had a neck and a body and an hour to kill.
Dude was just bored and innovative with too much broken stuff hanging around, that's my guess... and I can relate.

 

[MattLplaysBass]

Oranges won't make a good apple pie...

But ritz crackers do... weird.

I agree though- just saw this on the 'bay myself and was amused. I think it'd be more of an on stage cab for looks.

 

[anderbass]

There's been serveral guys here on the forum searching for replacement speakers for their goliath-II cabs,
they should contact this dude and see if he's still got his original speakers...

 

[brian1e]

I think he should have went for that Maytag sound.

 

[eban3]

dumb dumb dah dumb dumb dah dumb dumb

 

[danosix]

FS: ONE OF A KIND SWR GOLIATH III BASS SPEAKER MODDED WITH SONY APM22 WOOFERS

No words...

Either the person put it together not caring that it would be a bad cabinet in terms of both sound and volume (audio speakers are several times less efficient than instrument speakers) OR
they put it together thinking it would "totally thump man" because they were "subwoofer" speakers.
Either way total waste of both a good bass cabinet and some decent audio woofers.

 

[Munjibunga]

For five and a half bucks, I'll take it. Live and let live.

 

[pie_man_25]

Well, at least he's being honest about it. He's definitely not calling it custom, which is also great.

 

[Ewo]

Why, you ask.

To adapt the old saying about a hammer and a nail...

When all you have is a jigsaw, every problem looks like a baffle board.

 

[BbbyBld]

I'd love to try out that cab, but...I'm not willing to pay money to do it.

 

[swafran]

This guy wanted the original cones to put in some other cab. Then he had just the empty cab leftover. "What a waste! Maybe I can put crap speakers in the old cab and sell it to some poor sap" thought this modern-day hero of recycling.

At least with this ad you know ahead of time what you're buying. Sometimes you can't tell there's been a swap from the outside.

 

[David Jayne]

Cool, the value of my old Goliaths just went up a little.

 

[TripleDouble]

Why? why not!

 

[10cc]

Why? why not!

Exactly. It's not like you can sell SWR stuff nowadays.

 

[wcriley]

For five and a half bucks, I'll take it. Live and let live.

The shipping cost is the deal breaker for me. If I lived close enough to pick it up, I'd probably bid $20.

 

[Hotblack]

The shipping cost is the deal breaker for me. If I lived close enough to pick it up, I'd probably bid $20.

Oh crap! It's local to me. I might have to put in a bid.