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Author Topic: "Rings" & "Roys" ???  (Read 13319 times)

Rex Ray

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Re: "Rings" & "Roys" ???
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2016, 09:18:16 AM »

They were indeed an official CBA product and part of the old 4-way "Horn & Bin" system. Built in the Lititz woodshop. They're  still around in a warehouse somewhere,I'm sure.
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« Reply #11 on: January 20, 2016, 05:51:34 PM »

They were indeed an official CBA product and part of the old 4-way "Horn & Bin" system. Built in the Lititz woodshop. They're  still around in a warehouse somewhere,I'm sure.
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On this side of the Tasman, a bloke called Dodds redesigned the roybin so it packed better with the Keele single 18" W-bin. They were always (incorrectly)
called roybins, not doddsbins. Endemic in the '80s and when loaded with E120s, absolute murder on the back.
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« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2016, 09:17:50 AM »

The original Roy Box had no ports,and was more square than rectangular,almost a cube. There used to be a guy in NZ that had a system of JBL S-4 looking boxes,he drove them with his own 3-way amplifiers. We used that system when I was there with Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. 1986,IIRC. We hung them on Clair aluminum bumpers that we brought with us. Outdoors,in the round.
Or was that Tasmania? Geez I'm old!
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Chris Hindle

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« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2016, 12:44:41 PM »


Or was that Tasmania? Geez I'm old!
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Rex, if I may say so, you're one of the few I know of that can honestly say "Been there, done that"

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« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2016, 05:19:09 PM »

The roybin, in its natural environment, accompanied by 18" Ws, 2350 radial and rings (The Altec was an anomoly - had to put it somewhere). 1982.
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Jim McKeveny

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« Reply #15 on: January 23, 2016, 01:08:28 PM »

Brilliant, thanks Rex. Were they an official Clair Brothers product?, or was it a side project designed by Roy and given over to other manufacturers?

I wold love to see an original "Roy".

It was all about max spl at lowest cost back then. Measurement did not exist. If you could accurately notch the wild peaks of a 4560+K/E130 package, the USABLE sensitivity was orders of magnitude lower. 

BTW Mike Diack: What was the Working Load Limit on that SL sawhorse?
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« Reply #16 on: January 27, 2016, 05:15:51 AM »

BTW Mike Diack: What was the Working Load Limit on that SL sawhorse?
Enough.
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Dennis Wiggins

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« Reply #17 on: January 27, 2016, 11:01:37 AM »

..and then there were the JBL 2404H's! 

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« Reply #18 on: January 27, 2016, 01:04:43 PM »



It was all about max spl at lowest cost back then. Measurement did not exist. If you could accurately notch the wild peaks of a 4560+K/E130 package, the USABLE sensitivity was orders of magnitude lower. 


That was my mid package for most of the 80s.
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Keith Broughton

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« Reply #19 on: January 27, 2016, 02:06:08 PM »

That was my mid package for most of the 80s.
So much top end on that rig it looks like it took your hair off Ivan  ;D ;D
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