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RE: What model Wharfdale is this?

Posted by Brian Levy (A) on September 5, 2013 at 09:29:32

In Reply to: RE: What model Wharfdale is this? posted by Crazy Dave on September 4, 2013 at 14:14:44:

They precede the W series from the cabinet design. BIC, the importer of Wharfedale into the US early on did not have labels on the terminal posts of the model or any indication of +/- as they were at the time mono systems and therefore polarity was not an issue.

As Wharfedale did not use a crossover for the woofers, allowing the speaker to naturally roll off in later models, it is possible these 2-ways did not have crossovers as back then speaker design was custom to a manufacurer and therefore they did not need to marry variously sourced drivers to each other requiring crossovers except usually a capacitor. Because of Bigg's preference to use the driver's rolloff versus a crossover, it is possible these never had crossovers, being 2-way. At the time amps were not high powered so there was not as much of an issue of overdriving and cooking a voice coil and being transformer driven tube amps of the day could not pass DC, clipping was not an issue.

Is the wiring there and drivers connected?
Don Brian Levy, J.D.
Toronto ON Canada

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