R.A. loudspeakers

There are several pairs of R.A B16 speakers from such high-class suppliers as eBay and Ca$hConverters, all described as "rare".

I notice gumtree supplies 13A PowerKords at over 95% discount, maybe these can get burnt-out as well as burnt-in?

Second hand... these speakers are obviously being sold without their accompanying RA approved marketing description. So they obviously won't sound as good any more. However if you contact RA directly they may be able to reunite them with an upgraded description for you. (for a small nominal fee natch) :-)

What do you expect for £13.50

There's a glimmer of hope because they have shiny cones which probably means the grilles can be removed for that essential high class look.

I'm sure Ross could recondition the speakers for little more than a few hundred pounds. Each. :)

My sub has removable grille sometimes needed as some foreign bodies do get in and vibrate. Also my little el chepo Skytronic two way speakers have this ability as well. These little speakers if carefully placed away from walls sound remarkably good. Obviously they cannot be driven too hard. Their one failing is the cheap and nasty cable gripping things on the back, they are the sort where you poke the wire into a hole and let go of a little sprung thing. I have had to remake them several times as on bass you can hear a crackling kind of effect due to contact resistance. Brian

Certainly looks odd, RA don't do own brand speakers. The only ones I could see on their website were a couple of Meridians at £3K a pair.

But as these are second hand would it not be conceivable that they have done so at some time? A quick search on google images brings up examples such as these as well as the ones featured by the OP

GH

I think you are confusing Russ Andrews with Richard Allan.

It looks to me as though Richard Allan, speaker manufacturer has somehow become the RA group, which looks like a bunch of businesses, not necessarily too similar.

Richard Allan was one of the well known, excellent Yorkshire audio manufacturers.

Nonetheless, the original photo says "Russ Andrews" not R.A. or Richard Allan

Possibly but although

I know Yorkshire thinks it somehow merits being classed as a country in its own right but the population still use English and don?t spell R I C H A R D A L L A N as R U S S A N D R E W S.

Here is a picture of the back of the speakers I linked to before.

So which one of us is confused .

I?d be prepared to accept the argument that Russ Andrews took someone else?s speakers ,tweaked them a bit and stuck the Russ Andrews name on which appears to have happened occasionally but once that label goes on it makes them an own brand even if it looks like there has been an element of badge engineering.

GH

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OK, OK, I'll admit I just went from the thread title, and didn't look at the picture beyond seeing that they looked like many other speakers I've known.

And they didn't actually look good enough or hand made enough to be Richard Allan speakers.

Not hand made at all. A really cheap, poor quality injection moulded casing. Which suggests corners were cut elsewhere too.

Andy