30" EV's

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Author Message elwoodblue Senior Member Username: elwoodblue Post Number: 1330 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Monday, January 09, 2012 - 1:36 pm:    neato... ebay benson_murrensun Senior Member Username: benson_murrensun Post Number: 570 Registered: 5-2007 Posted on Monday, January 09, 2012 - 1:51 pm:    Cabinet by Tuff-Shed? elwoodblue Senior Member Username: elwoodblue Post Number: 1331 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Monday, January 09, 2012 - 2:30 pm:    hehe...LOL cozmik_cowboy Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 1135 Registered: 10-2006 Posted on Monday, January 09, 2012 - 5:59 pm:    I WANT!!!! Peter sonicus Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 2252 Registered: 5-2009 Posted on Monday, January 09, 2012 - 6:26 pm:    One could crawl inside and have the ultimate visceral Bass Experience ! Perhaps might be good for your circulation as well . fmm Advanced Member Username: fmm Post Number: 331 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Monday, January 09, 2012 - 8:12 pm:    I’ve got some experience with those speakers. In the late 70s I worked for an audio shop in Dubuque, IA called Great Sounds Audio. It’s still there. It’s in a small 2-story house. At that time, the store occupied half of the second floor (the other half was an apartment), my boss lived in half of the lower floor, and the other half was the office for the adjoining 6-room motel. We carried EV home stereo speakers. If the dealer catalog, the biggest speaker was the EV 30 W. 30” across, the speaker cone is made of ½” thick Styrofoam. At the time, this was the most efficient speaker in the world in terms of converting electrical energy to acoustic energy. The cabinets for these things were the size of china hutches, about 10 feet tall. We actually sold 2 pairs of these behemoths. As an aside, we did several installations of 20” and larger speakers into the walls of listening rooms. The adjoining room served as the enclosure. I don’t recall ever doing this with the EV 30s. Anyway, EV didn’t sell a lot of these, and had to do something with them. So as a dealer incentive, they removed the magnets and the voice coils, attached a set of legs, a round Plexiglas top with the EV logo, and packaged it with 4 EV directors chairs. If you purchase $6,000 worth of product, you’d get a table and chair set. My boss decided he needed 6 sets, so he orders many thousands of dollars worth of speakers. Probably more product than we had sold in the prior 18 months. He tells me nothing of this. One afternoon the truck shows up with many many many speakers, which the driver kindly deposited at the back of the truck. I was working alone, and had to cart these boxes into the store, stacking them in the bosses living area. When the boss arrived, he decided to rent a storage space rather than sleep with the boxes, so I got to move them all twice in 1 day. I visited the store last month; he still has one EV table set left at the store, and another at his house. sonicus Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 2255 Registered: 5-2009 Posted on Monday, January 09, 2012 - 8:21 pm:    Great Story ! it takes me back to the days when I worked at CBS Specialty Stores AKA Pacific Stereo. sonicus Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 2256 Registered: 5-2009 Posted on Monday, January 09, 2012 - 8:32 pm:    ALTEC A2 System A bass reflex system with 4 /15's (Message edited by sonicus on January 09, 2012) dadabass2001 Senior Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 1609 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 5:53 am:    Oh look! A "Roar Of The Theatre" system... Mike lbpesq Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 5036 Registered: 7-2004 Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 7:38 am:    How big were those giant speakers at Bag End when we had the gathering in Chicago? Bill, tgo speicky Senior Member Username: speicky Post Number: 451 Registered: 3-2005 Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 8:19 am:    if I remember correctly, BagEnd had 21"s... and they sure shook the ground Christian davehouck Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 10506 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 8:21 am:    Great story Michael! pauldo Senior Member Username: pauldo Post Number: 741 Registered: 6-2006 Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 11:13 am:    Christian is right - 21's - 4 of them. I still can't stop grinning when I think about them! :-) (Message edited by pauldo on January 10, 2012) benson_murrensun Senior Member Username: benson_murrensun Post Number: 571 Registered: 5-2007 Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 1:07 pm:    "The adjoining room served as the enclosure." Good use of space. I love it. I guess you could open some windows and make it an open-back cabinet.