[For Sale] Pair of 300w 15" bass bin speakers (sold)

[zedwunare]

Item: Pair of bass bin speakers - 300w 15"
Age: 15+ years old
Price: R3000
Warranty: Nope
Packaging: N/A
Condition: Very good, just dusty
Location: Cresta
Reason: No use for them
Shipping: Unlikely, but you could try to arrange
Collection: Yes
Link: N/A

These are custom built W type bass bin speakers similar to the design shown here : PA Systems, sound systems, speaker boxes, live Sound - Dancetech

Here is the slightly embarrassing yet endearing history: A long long time ago, friends and I were big into homemade electronics, amps and the like. We also enjoyed loud parties. A buddy build a few big power amps and in the midst of an obsession with parties and DJ'ing, my dad helped me build these behemoths. They have been used in anger only a handful of times and otherwise have mostly been gathering dust. They have hardly ever been moved in the past years and are in great condition.

These would be great to supplement a fixed setup somewhere or perhaps supplement someone's DJ equipment.

I have to say, these are pretty darn heavy. They fit in the back of a Golf type hatchback but only barely. Bakkie / truck would be ideal - it definitely takes more than one person to pick them up and move them about.

Lastly, since I sold my amp a few months ago I don't have an output / amp / anything to show you them working. You are welcome to bring your own amp / testing equipment to validate they work as expected.







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[SeriousSamZA]

What drivers are in these bins?

 

[SeriousSamZA]

What amp would you recommend? I am pretty interested in this

 

[zedwunare]

Hi.

All good questions. Not sure I have many answers!

I don't remember if the drivers were a name brand. I probably bought them from A1 Radio in Durban a long time ago and the bass bins aren't super easy to open up - I'd have to unscrew a bunch of things. Not impossible - I just haven't tried opening them up and looking.

Still on the topic of the drivers - a bit more clarity and transparency.. they might not be 300watt. They might be 400 or 500watt drivers - I just remember I definitely wouldn't have put anything less than a 300watt driver in there so I described them as 300watt. Also open cards - I've since done some googling on what time/ageing can do to speakers and there is the possibility of degradation over time.

All that being said, I did test them with my Yamaha amp before I sold it and they worked and went pretty loud but nowhere near their max capability.

What amp to use? Oh jeez - that's a tough question because I never really used a proper commercial amp with these. It was back in my high school days and my buddies and I built things like this : High Power Mosfet Amplifier IRF540N

I think an ideal setup would probably be these bass bins combined with a pair of speakers like this to provide midrange and high frequency response (tweeters)

https://www.sono-energie.com/13874-images_1500/paire-d-enceintes-passives-sono-dj-pa-10-25cm-2x250w-2-voies-bassreflex-ibiza-star10-250.jpg

Then I'm guessing you'd have a multi-channel amp to drive the bass bins along with the mids and tweeters or maybe different amps for different pairs of speakers? (insert shrug / puzzled emoji here)

Maybe an amplifier like this? takealot.com

Seems "Power Amplifier" is the thing you'd need.

At the end of the day, I am open to negotiation given my driver ageing research but I think the value is in the bass bin boxes - they're solid and well finished. I still maintain that the drivers work great though - but honestly have no idea whether they'd last through a hundred, thousand or million loud loud songs!

 

[SeriousSamZA]

Hi.

All good questions. Not sure I have many answers!

I don't remember if the drivers were a name brand. I probably bought them from A1 Radio in Durban a long time ago and the bass bins aren't super easy to open up - I'd have to unscrew a bunch of things. Not impossible - I just haven't tried opening them up and looking.

Still on the topic of the drivers - a bit more clarity and transparency.. they might not be 300watt. They might be 400 or 500watt drivers - I just remember I definitely wouldn't have put anything less than a 300watt driver in there so I described them as 300watt. Also open cards - I've since done some googling on what time/ageing can do to speakers and there is the possibility of degradation over time.

All that being said, I did test them with my Yamaha amp before I sold it and they worked and went pretty loud but nowhere near their max capability.

What amp to use? Oh jeez - that's a tough question because I never really used a proper commercial amp with these. It was back in my high school days and my buddies and I built things like this : High Power Mosfet Amplifier IRF540N

I think an ideal setup would probably be these bass bins combined with a pair of speakers like this to provide midrange and high frequency response (tweeters)

https://www.sono-energie.com/13874-images_1500/paire-d-enceintes-passives-sono-dj-pa-10-25cm-2x250w-2-voies-bassreflex-ibiza-star10-250.jpg

Then I'm guessing you'd have a multi-channel amp to drive the bass bins along with the mids and tweeters or maybe different amps for different pairs of speakers? (insert shrug / puzzled emoji here)

Maybe an amplifier like this? takealot.com

Seems "Power Amplifier" is the thing you'd need.

At the end of the day, I am open to negotiation given my driver ageing research but I think the value is in the bass bin boxes - they're solid and well finished. I still maintain that the drivers work great though - but honestly have no idea whether they'd last through a hundred, thousand or million loud loud songs!

Thank you for such an awesome reply! Incredibly detailed!
I just have one last question, what is the impedance of these?

 

[zedwunare]

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