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PoLiTiCs => What's on your cranium??? => Topic started by: OldiesButGoodies on June 14, 2015, 08:48:14 PM

Title: Lafayette Criterion VI Speaker
Post by: OldiesButGoodies on June 14, 2015, 08:48:14 PM

Doing not much on a lazy Sunday evening, browsing old Lafayette catalogs.  The Criterion VI speaker had 4 separate tweeters - two aluminum cone 1.5" super tweeters,  and two 3" cone tweeters,  covering the fours corners around the 12" woofer.  The 5" mid rode to the left of all that and on top of "sonic tube".  Catalog says the freq response was 20-20K.  Would not mind getting my hands on a minty copy of these to see how inaccurate that claim was using room eq wizard.    :P

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/559/18631258399_a5ec40748d_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/uoo526)IMG_0003.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/uoo526) by Jose Sifontes (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jsifontes/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Lafayette Criterion VI Speaker
Post by: Sir Thrift-a-Lot on June 14, 2015, 09:48:16 PM

Response 20-20,000 Hz ± 12 db.  >:D

Title: Re: Lafayette Criterion VI Speaker
Post by: papabearjew on June 14, 2015, 10:35:30 PM

I worked at Lafayette during high school and sold many Criterion speakers. Average at best. Luckily we also sold many good brand;  KLH, AR, Dynaco, Wharfedale, Rectilinear etc.