What speaker manufacturers use Peerless components?

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Not sure if you mean now or in the past. If it is the past then I'm pretty confident that Bang and Olufsen used some as bass units and 20 yrs ago the tweeter in some POLK speakers had a driver that looked a lot like the old 1" Peerless dome. I've got a suspicion that nearly 30 yrs ago that tweeter was used by KLH in a three-way. I think a small UK outfit called Nightingale (NM1 along with an Isophone tweeter) used the sealed back midrange in a KEF based tranmission line around that time. I'll look up my old "Hi Fi Choice" booklets and check these out later in the week. GALE (not Nightingale) also had the 5" mid in one of their models.....the 301 I think. EAGLE a UK company used them in a three-way...Model L6600.
 
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😀 also dont forget the old omni direction sonabs of the 70/s that used peerless woofers and cone tweeters😉 also the early gales [ the ones with chrome end caps] used twin 8 in woofers and the sealed back mid range combined with a celestion hf 2000 tweeter...... a top speaker in its day and even run rings around todays stuff😀 cheers
TC:devilr:
 
#6
ADAM uses Peerless drivers in their P33A and P11A monitors (the link is to a subpage, so you can't navigate very well). Not sure if they are (or were) official models, they might have been custom-built for ADAM. I've also seen these (or at least very similar) drivers in another brand of monitors, but the name escapes me...

/Andreas
 
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Add to these the UK Audiomaster Image 2 (tweeter only) the KLH refered to earlier was the CL4 it had two or three Peerless drivers. At least the mid and high units but I can't tell if the woofer is or not .......probably was. BTW PoorSound, I'm just curios, why do you want to know?
 
#8
i was just curious. I've seen certain speakers that have drivers that look very similar to the peerless ones and have always wondered. I built some DIY Peerless speakers and i'm just interested in them.

I'm really surprised that NHT uses Peerless components. cool!
 
#9
Fair enough. I think it was easier to do this sort of exercise 20-30 yrs ago. There were less cheap copies around and "if it looked like a duck" then in those days it probably was a duck. Not necessarily so now. I guess you also get a stacks of Spam advertising various item. I've had several recently promoting "genuine imitation Rolex watches". That is a new high in product disclosure statements. You've got to love it. I've also had DIY Peerless stuff. Only tweeters and mids. In Aust' in the early 70's it was only really them, Phillips and KEF for those with gainful employment. Very different situation now.
 
#16
It is my understanding that Linn has used many other Peerless woofers over the years, and that many of the features that are common on peerless drivers (like the ventalated VC) came from mutual research with Linn.

Another of my current favorites is AVI (http://www.avihifi.co.uk/main.html ) who use the same 6.5 HDS in the brio model. Fantastic speaker, but not as good as the models that use the Volt drivers.

-Chad
 
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