Vintage Traynor // Phillips Norelco Speakers

[cobascis]

Hey,

I remember a canadian user posting saying he was looking for 2x12 traynor cabs with Phillips norelcos. If I google it the post comes up but when you click on it it says it has been deleted. He seemed to know a lot about these speakers so I was looking for his or anyone who knows Phillips Norelcos to comment.

I recently got a Traynor 4x12 with these speakers. It sounds great until there is gain involved, even the tube break up of my bassman makes a very harsh metallic sound. Dirt pedals make this 100x worse. I have heard it is from the 'Whizzer' cones that sort of form a cone shape around the speaker cone and that some people remove these with an exact knife. I'm hoping to find out if this is a legit procedure and if so/ how do you do it.

Anyone have any info?
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[cobascis]

Bump. Was it devnulljp>?

[Volume IV]

Bump. Was it devnulljp>?

yup

[artifact]

Please reconsider before you get out the scalpel !!

Those speakers are quite sought after intact, for music reproduction. I have a foot in each world (guitar and HiFi) and I've been looking for those for years. You could easily sell them to fund a quad of speakers with the sound you like. If you remove the whizzers, they lose most of their value.

Made by Philips (marketed in N. America under the name Norelco), they are similar or identical to the Philips model number AD1255/M7. The whizzer cone extends the high frequency response, up to 18kHz. Most guitar speakers roll off at 5-6 kHz, as that's what we find most pleasing for distorted guitar, a smooth top end.

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