Vintage B&W Speakers with ionic plasma tweeters

[Tony L]

These bring all the weird to the party! Anyone heard them/know anything about them?

BOWERS & WILKINS P2/H VINTAGE SPEAKERS WITH IONIC PLASMA TWEETERS | eBay

FOR SALE IS A PAIR OF BOWERS & WILKINS P2/H SPEAKERS MADE BETWEEN 1967-1969, SERIAL MATCHED PAIRNUMBERS: 288181 288182.

www.ebay.co.uk

 

[Beobloke]

Wow - rare things!

 

[James46]

I don't like the sound of the gasses given off...

 

[Beobloke]

I don't like the sound of the gasses given off...

My wife says that about me…

 

[mikeyb]

I don't like the sound of the gasses given off...

Lots of sssssss sss sibilance

 

[lawrence001]

I always wondered how an amplifier could power the ionic tweeters and now I know - they can't!

 

[Yank]

Roger Russell's Ionophone Ionovac Page

Sold in the US as the DuKane Ionovac or the EV Ionophone ("Dukanye" in the eBait ad, must sound good with rap music...)

 

[robbyd]

Very interesting, and he's just down the road from me.

However:

Massless - plasma speaker tweeter, ion ionic loudspeakers

Massless is about plasma speakers, ionic loudspeakers and plasma tweeters. Sometimes known as ion cloud, singing arcs and the site used to be airspeaker.

massless.info

 

[Yank]

Nelson Pass, then of Threshold, made a full-range-ish ionic speaker. I think in principle it resembled an electrostatic without a diaphragm.

After demonstrating it at WCES, he ended up in the hospital from the ozone exposure.

 

[menameisengine]

Jesus wow never seen a set of them before