Acoustical Manufacturing Company, SL15 Labyrinth speakers...

[Darmok]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SPEAKERS...d=link&campid=5338728743&toolid=20001&mkevt=1

EUR 16,000.00
Approximately £13,769.99

In concours condition, not.

 

[Tony L]

Fascinating, I’d never even heard of those (I do have the Ken Kessler Quad book and one would expect them to be documented, but I can’t recall seeing a photo). Shame about the paint job, but I guess they could be restored. I wonder what speaker is in them? I don’t think Quad ever made a conventional moving coil driver themselves.

 

[Darmok]

^^ I discovered these via my e-bay Radford alert messaging.

Shame they are located in Italy, else I'd like to go for a viewing.

Pre war going by the 3 digit Quads telephone number.

Top of the range of enclosure CL2 The Concert Labyrinth Loud Speaker is 48 pounds, in todays money = ????

 

[The Bish]

It was £675 new in 1949 so I guess at £13k asking price it must have some antique value.

 

[The Bish]

Apropos of nothing, the seller is also selling ‘artist’s s**t’. Go figure!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/11470947...d=link&campid=5338728743&toolid=20001&mkevt=1

 

[Mark Packer]

Interestingly, the Bank of England Inflation Calculator suggests that £649 in Feb 1949 equate to the buying power of £18,984.61 in Feb 2024.

 

[BenS]

The price for the Manzoni artist excrement is an insane bargain - but it’s obviously not an original piece. One of the edition sold for 275000 euros at Sothebys fairly recently. It’s an important piece of modernist Italian art history - regardless of whether we might think it’s ridiculous.