danger boy
09-21-2004, 06:15 PM
(long, sorry guys) :(
Had the day off (sick, cough, cough)... ;) So i decided to make the most of my day and go trolling for whatever i could find. I usually end up empty handed... but not today.
for $15 for the pair I found a 5 or 6 out of 10 condition pair of Criterion VI bookshelf speakers. I know it's not the find of the year or anything.. but I was a little proud for finding em. Like I said before.. my searches usually end up with squat.
I can't find anything on the good old internet about these speakers. If I remeber right... about a year ago... i run into another pair similar to these, but a different model. I think these (Lafayette ?) Criterion Speakers were made for someone like Sears or JC Penney or similar. Does anyone know any other info about them?
These have a 12" woofer, a 5" mid and 2 or 4 tweets in em. I can't tell for sure. (see pics below). The drivers are all paper, no foam here :( but none of them have any rot or holes in them... so that's good huh?
I plugged them in and listened.. blech!!! Fooey!!!
then on the back they have knobs for the tweeter and the mid driver. crank em to increase or decrease the tweet or midrange. Ok. fine.. works ok.. and helped to improve the sound.. they sound better now.
I hooked em up to my 50wpc Yammy integrated.. and listened to some CD's off the Toshiba DVD player. ho hum... no biggie. I was compairing them to my lovely Polk Monitor 7b's. These Criterion's didn't stand a chance in hell. They failed.. even after tweaking as much of the tweeter as I could. Finally gave in and thought, well this is the best these cheap speakers will ever sound.
Then I switched on the Pionner TX-9500II tuna... hooked up with Signal Cable 2 with bullets.. WOW! OMG! did they come alive.. yes... they are very close now to the imaging and sound of the Monitor 7b's. They don't troll quite as low as the 7's. but very close. I mean.. i was extremely surprised to hear that big of a difference.
Point here is that source and interconnects DO indeed make a difference. :D
Just before turning on the tuner.. these were headed to the garage.. they would make a really decent pair of garage speakers. The cabinets do need to be refinished.. (see pics again).
Now i'm thinking of refinishing them and maybe even keeping them inside the house instead of the garage. Been listening to them for a few hours now.. and i can honestly say.. they ain't half bad.
I know they aren't the find of the year.. but what the hell for $15, I can live with myself. :p
Had the day off (sick, cough, cough)... ;) So i decided to make the most of my day and go trolling for whatever i could find. I usually end up empty handed... but not today.
for $15 for the pair I found a 5 or 6 out of 10 condition pair of Criterion VI bookshelf speakers. I know it's not the find of the year or anything.. but I was a little proud for finding em. Like I said before.. my searches usually end up with squat.
I can't find anything on the good old internet about these speakers. If I remeber right... about a year ago... i run into another pair similar to these, but a different model. I think these (Lafayette ?) Criterion Speakers were made for someone like Sears or JC Penney or similar. Does anyone know any other info about them?
These have a 12" woofer, a 5" mid and 2 or 4 tweets in em. I can't tell for sure. (see pics below). The drivers are all paper, no foam here :( but none of them have any rot or holes in them... so that's good huh?
I plugged them in and listened.. blech!!! Fooey!!!
then on the back they have knobs for the tweeter and the mid driver. crank em to increase or decrease the tweet or midrange. Ok. fine.. works ok.. and helped to improve the sound.. they sound better now.
I hooked em up to my 50wpc Yammy integrated.. and listened to some CD's off the Toshiba DVD player. ho hum... no biggie. I was compairing them to my lovely Polk Monitor 7b's. These Criterion's didn't stand a chance in hell. They failed.. even after tweaking as much of the tweeter as I could. Finally gave in and thought, well this is the best these cheap speakers will ever sound.
Then I switched on the Pionner TX-9500II tuna... hooked up with Signal Cable 2 with bullets.. WOW! OMG! did they come alive.. yes... they are very close now to the imaging and sound of the Monitor 7b's. They don't troll quite as low as the 7's. but very close. I mean.. i was extremely surprised to hear that big of a difference.
Point here is that source and interconnects DO indeed make a difference. :D
Just before turning on the tuner.. these were headed to the garage.. they would make a really decent pair of garage speakers. The cabinets do need to be refinished.. (see pics again).
Now i'm thinking of refinishing them and maybe even keeping them inside the house instead of the garage. Been listening to them for a few hours now.. and i can honestly say.. they ain't half bad.
I know they aren't the find of the year.. but what the hell for $15, I can live with myself. :p