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In Reply to: Info on old Criterion L8 speakers posted by Mudcat on December 7, 2004 at 08:56:32:
Criterion speakers were made by Lafayette. I would guess they are late sixties era.I know nothing about the Criterion L8, or have seen one.
I do have two pairs of Criterion 100B speakers, scavenged for the 10" inch woofers. These have just a 3 inch mid and tweeter with the ten.
The Criterion 100B IMO is just pretty much a budget Japenese speaker.
And the 100B 10" inch woofers appear to be nothing special either.The Criterion 100B speaker enclosure is too small for the 10" woofer, it sounds like a midrange in the enclosure, with some ungodly sized port.....
The tweeters sound pretty good.Now you yank the 10" woofer and put in a 3, 4 foot internal volume cabinet and port tune it to around 35, 36 Hz.
Now the little ten incher can dig down to a good 35 Hz or lower, and has a real nice midbass and nice all the way to the upper midrange. Works well with just a helper tweeter.They look cheap, have a two-inch voice coil, decent sized alnico magnet considering, and just a paper type accordion surround and metal basket. 8 ohms, 40 watts max.
They are a wee bit agressive to some degree, and quite lively.
A proper Zobel network would help that.DIY SE 6BQ5 amps, and 300B amps are used with the Criterion 10" woofer in DIY cabinet.
I dunno if the 10" woofers in the L8 are like the 100B, however....
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