Tony L
Administrator
I've been doing a little more research and unfortunately the left-right imbalance I mentioned earlier is the drivers, not the crossovers. I swapped the crossovers over and the imbalance stayed where it was, so, annoyingly, I'll need to replace the drivers. I had a look and one speaker seems to have got a bit damp, there is some very obvious corrosion around the magnet of the B110, and without taking it out the T27 looks the same.
I've decided I really like the JR149 sound so I'll go ahead and fully restore these regardless of expense - the cabs are in decent condition and everything else can be sourced eventually, albeit at a price.
Has anyone any experience of the recent Falcon FB110? This seems the most logical way to get a mint tightly matched pair of B110s assuming they actually sound like the original ones. The cost is not that much more than buying a really tidy old pair that may well have drifted off spec, and without the 'eBay turkey' risk, though I can't find any reviews of them anywhere. I've no option but to play the second-hand market with the T27s - I've stuck a wanted ad up in the classifieds room to see if anyone here has a mint pair either separately or in a less desirable pair of 1970s speakers.
All a bit annoying, but it's only a few hundred quid at the end of the day, and I'll happily pay that to get 'em performing to spec. I'm loving the sound so far and liking their natural yet crisp and clean tonality with jazz and classical. The annoyance is just the pair-matching is out so they can't form a strong central image or really disappear - one has a lot more mid-band punch than the other. I love the complete lack of boxiness and boom, they are just so well behaved. Definitely worth fixing.
I've decided I really like the JR149 sound so I'll go ahead and fully restore these regardless of expense - the cabs are in decent condition and everything else can be sourced eventually, albeit at a price.
Has anyone any experience of the recent Falcon FB110? This seems the most logical way to get a mint tightly matched pair of B110s assuming they actually sound like the original ones. The cost is not that much more than buying a really tidy old pair that may well have drifted off spec, and without the 'eBay turkey' risk, though I can't find any reviews of them anywhere. I've no option but to play the second-hand market with the T27s - I've stuck a wanted ad up in the classifieds room to see if anyone here has a mint pair either separately or in a less desirable pair of 1970s speakers.
All a bit annoying, but it's only a few hundred quid at the end of the day, and I'll happily pay that to get 'em performing to spec. I'm loving the sound so far and liking their natural yet crisp and clean tonality with jazz and classical. The annoyance is just the pair-matching is out so they can't form a strong central image or really disappear - one has a lot more mid-band punch than the other. I love the complete lack of boxiness and boom, they are just so well behaved. Definitely worth fixing.