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Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 06-30-2016, 11:42 AM:

I'm wondering if anyone here can identify the following Peavey speaker. I'm interested in its model number and datasheet (and manual, if such a thing exists).

I guess this is another call to have a separate "sound" forum.

Posted by Jay Wyatt (Member # 8768) on 06-30-2016, 11:56 AM:

The LF cabinet seems to match this, different horns though.

LINK

Guess#1 at the horn

Guess #2 at horn

Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 06-30-2016, 12:06 PM:

quote: Jay Wyatt
The LF cabinet seems to match this, different horns though.

LINK

Ahh, our old friend kinemaman, selling used junk worth less than $100 for full list price or thereabouts... that speaker in the listing is not worth anything close to $775 (!). (Peavey speakers weren't worth much anyways, pretty bad sound but as an economy solution for theatres that couldn't afford better, they were o.k.)

That said though, I did get a great deal on some Telex 16mm projectors (military surplus, new old stock) and when one projector's rewind clutch failed, he did send a complete replacement projector at no charge...AND I got to keep the bad one for parts.

So not a bad guy really, but he seems to always way overprice his stuff on fleabay.

Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 06-30-2016, 12:36 PM:

Thanks for the very fast responses! I'm pretty sure it is a CH2 horn...It has a 22XT compression driver and those two go together but the CH 1 looks pretty similar.

The speaker listed as the CAS3215 looks to be a Frankenstein of an EV bass section and an EAW HF section. That is an EAW horn (previous generation as used on their CB259 speaker)

Posted by Jay Wyatt (Member # 8768) on 06-30-2016, 12:46 PM:

How does it sound?

Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 06-30-2016, 12:55 PM:

I haven't heard it...it is at a site I'm going to and want information on it before setting things like the crossover.

Posted by James Westbrook (Member # 3690) on 07-02-2016, 11:51 AM:

I am familiar with the 22XT driver...

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 07-02-2016, 12:34 PM:

https://assets.peavey.com/literature/manuals/80301505.pdf

https://assets.peavey.com/literature/manuals/80302103.pdf

a lot of these got sold by CFS back in the day

Posted by Kenneth Wuepper (Member # 1174) on 07-02-2016, 01:16 PM:

Our local amateur theatre group has two of the old "Black Widow" cabinets using those drivers and they frequently got to look like the picture. Nothing tests the metal of a driver quite like 300 watts of square wave feedback.

Once Peavey was sending these with tours around the world as rock speakers. Everything in the box is replaceable in the field. Bass cone baskets and driver diaphragms, even the crossovers are plug in replaceable.

Posted by Ron Funderburg (Member # 4561) on 07-02-2016, 01:48 PM:

Sounds like a sensible design so I'm sure they don't make them anymore.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 07-02-2016, 03:43 PM:

That speaker looks exactly like the Peaveys we used to have in the Roxy. I don't know the model number but Mark G. could easily find out because they're currently sitting in a warehouse in SLC. They're for sale if you would like to pick them up at stupendous prices.

Posted by Ron Funderburg (Member # 4561) on 07-02-2016, 04:06 PM:

If I ever meet someone in the theater business not selling old equipment at a stupendous price I'll buy him a Daniel Webster cigar. Just kidding and with full apologies to John Wayne, Jeff Bridges and especially Charles Portis! I was re-reading True Grit the other night and it just popped in my head when Saw what you wrote.