Wharfedale SFB/3 loudspeakers

Along with some other vintage equipment, I have acquired a pair of these
'speakers and wonder if anyone can tell me something about them. All I know
is that they are of 1956 vintage.

I haven't really the space at home for them as they're very big and heavy so
I wondered if they are of interest to vintage audio collectors. If anyone
can point me in the right direction, websites, societies etc. and/or could
give me some idea of any value these 'speakers might have, I would be very
grateful.

Thanks,

Gavin.

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Along with some other vintage equipment, I have acquired a pair of these
'speakers and wonder if anyone can tell me something about them. All I
know is that they are of 1956 vintage.

If they are the units I am thinking of, SFB = "Sand Filled Baffle". These
have an open-backed speaker unit (i.e. no real enclosure) mounted in a sand
weighted baffle. At the time they were made they were well regarded. The
reason being the absence of the usual 'box' colourations. Sort of a 'poor
man's electrostatic' in being an open dipolar speaker. :-)

I haven't really the space at home for them as they're very big and
heavy so I wondered if they are of interest to vintage audio collectors.
If anyone can point me in the right direction, websites, societies etc.
and/or could give me some idea of any value these 'speakers might have,
I would be very grateful.

Can't help with that, I'm afraid. But I'd love to see photos or any
documentation. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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In article , pix&sounds
wrote:
Along with some other vintage equipment, I have acquired a pair of these
'speakers and wonder if anyone can tell me something about them. All I
know is that they are of 1956 vintage.

If they are the units I am thinking of, SFB = "Sand Filled Baffle". These
have an open-backed speaker unit (i.e. no real enclosure) mounted in a sand
weighted baffle. At the time they were made they were well regarded. The
reason being the absence of the usual 'box' colourations. Sort of a 'poor
man's electrostatic' in being an open dipolar speaker. :-)

I haven't really the space at home for them as they're very big and
heavy so I wondered if they are of interest to vintage audio collectors.
If anyone can point me in the right direction, websites, societies etc.
and/or could give me some idea of any value these 'speakers might have,
I would be very grateful.

Can't help with that, I'm afraid. But I'd love to see photos or any
documentation. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

--
Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm
Audio Misc http://www.st-and.demon.co.uk/AudioMisc/index.html
Armstrong Audio http://www.st-and.demon.co.uk/Audio/armstrong.html
Barbirolli Soc. http://www.st-and.demon.co.uk/JBSoc/JBSoc.html