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NOTES for those who are interested:
1. The wheels are chipped so those will need to be repaired.
2. We can ship it but you will be charged the shipping and handling depending on where you are. You can come pick them up as well if you are in the New York Region.
3. Purchased in the 70s, used them until about the early 90s. Have been in storage and not used since then.
4. Walnut color.
5. Total of 2 Speakers.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
When the Sonab OA-116 was introduced in 1975 the reviewers were lyrical about it. Swedish magazine Radio & Television wrote: ?the overall excellent characteristics give the speaker extraordinary good performance: A very large frequency range, ultra low distortion and a tonal richness in all ranges makes it unique?.
The first Swedish high-end speaker worth the name had seen the light. The model defined a new and higher standard level that affected the quality requirements for the whole loudspeaker market.
The loudspeaker was equipped with a separate 5.3 ohms 6.5 inch Peerless bass element. As the midrange element an odd 16 ohms version was used and 6 pieces of 5 cm Peerless cone tweeters of which several was directed towards the listener, giving a higher level of direct sound, compared to earlier omni directional designs.
With its linear tone curve (even today it is beating much more expensive high-end speakers), the OA-116 soon became a favourite among the professional musicians in Sweden. The model was however ? similar to its predecessor the professional model OA-2212 - too low as a studio monitor since it most often was hidden behind the high mixer tables. Still a large number of musicians, composers, directors, music technicians and other golden ears bought a pair of OA-116 as their private home speakers. Many are still using them as their reference speakers. There is a well known choir conductor using restored OA-116 in almost every room in the house! OA-116 is also the 1970-model that the Swedish sound technique guru engineer Ingvar Öhman considers as his special favourite.
TECHNICAL INFO:
According to the Sonabs instructions manual and/or HiFi-Handboken 19788
Volume: 45 litre
Measures B x H x D: 26 x 67 x 46cm
Weight: 21.5 kg
Principle: Omni directional, bass reflex type. With increased quota between direct and reflected sound.
Diagonally facing mid-bass speakers. Six tweeters, three facing listening position and three diffusing/omni directional. The speaker is equipped with wheels.
Impedance: 8 ohm
Frequency range: 24-18.000 Hz
Frequency range: 28-15.000 Hz within 3 dB measured against a wall in a room
Crossover frequency: 400 Hz (6 dB) (From the beginning (in 1975) it was 500 Hz)
1800 Hz (12 dB)
Bass: 1 pc 6.5 inch 5,3 ohms Peerless SC 165
Mid range 1 pc 6,5 inch 16 ohms Peerless SC 165
Tweeter: 6 pc 5 cm Peerless MT 24 HFC (initially the smaller MT 20 HFC was used) 2 pc 16 ohm, 4 pc 8 ohm
Connection: Cannon 4-polig XLR
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