For some reason reading too much about HiFi, and the thread about how we started listening to music took me back to my schooldays in the Seventies.
In the Sixth form, lots of us had Saturday jobs and were putting together HiFi systems on the cheap. I had the obligatory Garrad Sp25. There was a lot of conversation in the Common Room about HiFi and one topic that was popular was the possibility of a pair of speakers out of drainpipes.
For curiosity I set Google to work. I thought this sort of weirdness had ended years ago. But no, the drainpipe speaker still lives on.
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Looks like something out of Star Trek
Tucked away, carefully wrapped in original boxes I have the Goodmans Axiette 8s from my father’s Gilbert Briggs design concrete drainpipe speakers. There are also the aluminium cones that were mounted above to aid treble dispersion.
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I had forgotten the detail about the drainpipes being in concrete.
Gilbert Briggs was the founder of Wharfdale. His story is pretty fascinating.
There was a story from my childhood, due to materials shortages after WWII an enterprising designer made speaker cones from army surplus yellow dusters coated in shellac. Thinking if might have been Wharfedale I did a search and found a blog article on the Audio affair site about Wharfedale. It supports a memory I posted elsewhere about being taken to a loudspeaker demonstration…
My first speakers were Wharfedale Denton’s.
I gave them to a friends sister a few years later with the SP25 I suspect they are still being used by her.
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