Phonoland

Hi
Just received a pair of tear drop repro speakers. They have Pyramid Phase III 525DC 4 Ohm speakers in the shell.

I would like to hook one up to my Seeburg KS200 and one to a Seeburg DS100/160/

What terminal connections would I make, as these are not 70 volt speakers like the original tear drop speakers?

Best
Darrell

Darrell, you'll need to use a 70 volt tran tapped at lest to 5 watts to get anything out of those speakers.

I'm stuck with 7 of those in my retro locations. The location owner bought them and while I use other speakers as main sources, I did hook the fake teardrops up using transformers.

Frankly, these are way overpriced junk. They have a cheap car audio speaker with low efficiency and a foam surround that goes bad in 7-8 years leaving the cone rattling on bass. In fact, the rattling is louder then the audio coming out of them. Even if wanted to, I could not easily replace the driver due to it being glued/plastic welded in-place.

For what one of those costs you can usually find one or more -good- Seeburg HCV-TW1 series originals.

Sorry to be so negative but these repros are just a rip-off.

Rob/NYC

Rob

Your not negative, just telling it like it is.

I assume you are talking about hooking s speaker up to the KS200.

I hooked one up to a DS, one wire to the #4 terminal and one wire to ground and that speaker is working fine.

I agree it would be a challenge to ever replace the speakers. Its a shame they did not at least install the speaker so it could have been easily replaced.

Thanks for the info.

Best
Darrell

Darrell, as far as I remember, both amps have 70v outputs.

If you hook up a 4 ohm spk to the low impedance out of the DS which I believe uses 16 ohm spks, the 4 will consume 4 times the power printed on the tap. So there is potential to really overload the amp here.

If connected to a mono (K-V-201) which has 8 ohm outputs it will simply be double.

Rob