Radio Shack Optimus 3-way Surface Mount Car Speakers from 1996

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New old stock Radio Shack Optimus 12-1724 surface mount speakers. These are from 1996 and incorporate 3" woofer, 2" midrange and 1" piezo tweeter. Original MSRP $29.99.
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@sketchyssk8shop 11 месяцев назад

I do miss radio shack

@TheLolo919 11 месяцев назад

Yup remember I used to stay in radio shack in the tower shopping center in East Raleigh ❤

@deciplesteve 11 месяцев назад

I miss specifically THAT era of RS. I don't miss "glorified cell phone store" era RS.

@johnwilson7799 11 месяцев назад

I do too!!!

@ve6wo 11 месяцев назад

Same. I started my career in electronics working at Radio Shack up here in Canada while in college. 1991. They had a lot of decent stuff.

@JasonMcCord-qk3yb 11 месяцев назад

I really miss them too. Easiest place to get a 16 ohm diode or any other myriad of things I might need while installing security systems and audio systems! Now I have to stock all that stuff, and I still run into things I need. I’m always saying;” I bet Radio Shack would have had it!”

@murrayshekelberg9754 11 месяцев назад

I had an 18" Optimus subwoofer in the early 90s in a leaky homemade box. I added it with my pair of 12" MTX Blue Thunders and thought I was the hottest basshead on 4 wheels when I would crank up my 1 button Sparkomatic tape deck and Jensen amp in my 76 Malibu Classic.

@liamkilroy9478 11 месяцев назад

Love how even in the 90s Radioshack were honest with their ratings 😎

@audiokeller1975 11 месяцев назад

Cool! The manufacturer honestly printed 180-20.000Hz - respect! Most of the stuff like this available back then had all the same print: 20 - 20000 Hz 😅😅😅

@R.J.1 11 месяцев назад

I still have a 3 way 12" house speakers from Optimus. Radio Shack was dope. They were my account when I worked for Sprint in the 90s early 2000s. The Mall of America store was lit.

@Scott.Hughes 11 месяцев назад

I absolutely love these old school videos of non-high-end equipment. It reminds me of 1988 when I had no money and wasn't even aware of equipment outside of auto-parts stores, Radio Shack and those "Sound Expo" shows at the civic center. Please keep them coming. Additionally, I actually had a set of speakers very similar to this Optimus set. I hooked them up to a radio out of an 1981 Buick Century and used them for a sound system in a workshop.

@kenalexander1088 11 месяцев назад

I had a Blaupunkt 12 from one of those expo sales back in the 90s. Seemed louder than the Punch I replaced with it.

@R.J.1 11 месяцев назад

@@kenalexander1088 I had 4 Blaupunkt 10 subwoofers in a 87 Honda Accord. 2 sealed, 2 bandpass. It blew a Kicker sponsored CRX with 3 10" round solobarics out the water.

@JasonMcCord-qk3yb 11 месяцев назад

In my garage I had an older Alpine 2-shaft (Or just “Shaft radio” as we ‘old guys’ liked to call them) that we hooked up 8 bookshelf speakers to and ran with it. That thing was still playing over 20 years later when I finally moved to a bigger house/garage! The new garage has a period-correct dvd/flatscreen tuner with a Goodwill-bought 50”LED tv on the wall.

@BigMerc91CMDNJ 11 месяцев назад

I remember being a kid always hanging out at the Radio Shack in Woodlynne NJ. I stayed blowing fuses in my home receiver because I didn't know anything about ohm load and impedance. The guy that worked there taught me and I began to drift into car audio. I was only 14 with no license and would still tell dudes if their systems were trash or good. Even fought a few grown men. Miss those days 😂

@j.r.gonzalez9429 11 месяцев назад

Same.

@jaydawg4065 11 месяцев назад

Loved everything about Radio Shack!!!

@Blowncapacitor84 11 месяцев назад

AGREED!!!

@DarrenShaw-ev5tb 11 месяцев назад

I was a battery of the month ( club member ) for years ! Truly loved that place !!

@Choralone422 11 месяцев назад

Ahh, the 90s when the words "bass reflex" were absolutely everywhere on consumer audio gear! Love me some old school Optimus gear. It wasn't always the best, but at least it was usually quite accurate on specs and ratings!

@clintonhornik4664 11 месяцев назад

6x9s by Optimus were the best I have ever had. Seriously.

@shawnsatterlee6035 11 месяцев назад

I have many old Optimus home audio receivers. And few realistic ones as well. I use to use realistic woofers as a teenager for my home audio. Goddamn radio shack was the best! Could basically get anything u wanted. I had the 3way 15's and the 2 way 15's home speakers. Just great! I miss the old days!

@boominc0420 11 месяцев назад

Radio shack had alot of good stuff . I had an Optimus 100w amp in my old Ford ranger running a pair of kicker comp 8s gold letter . It did great. I had a pioneer radio and a frontier eq/crossover . This was in 95.

@T_Burd_75 11 месяцев назад

I was always a big fan of Radio Shack's Optimus line of audio products. In high school I installed an Optimus 28 watt am-fm cassette stereo with auto-reverse in a 1975 Chrysler Cordoba, powering a pair of Sony 2-way 6x9 speakers in the rear deck. I thought I really had something back in 1992. :D Then in 1997 I purchased a pair of Optimus Pro-LX7 speakers for the home stereo receiver, a bone-stock Pioneer 70 watt receiver. I still have that same pair of speakers to this day. Can't beat the clarity of those Linaeum tweeters. ;-)

@Micherson 11 месяцев назад

I can honestly say radio shack sold individually good speakers . For what it cost . I love radio shack .I’m not surprised that you are surprised. I was very surprised back in the 90s on how good radio shack speakers sounded.

@Mr-Clark 9 месяцев назад

I used to work for Radio Shack in 1998 and I bought a pair of these for $10 on clearance with my employee discount. I put them in the rear deck of my 1990 Mitsubishi Mirage hatchback. They sounded ok with my tape deck. Thanks for bringing back this pleasant memory :)

@robsolf 11 месяцев назад

Optimus(Radio Shack) always seemed to be right around Sherwood levels of quality. Competent, but not quite up to Pioneer and Kenwood mainstream levels. I remember their EQ/Boosters weren't mindblowing, but they had a line-in so you could plug a walkman(and eventually a discman) in, bypassing the need for a head unit. Perfect for the broke stockboy that I was, driving a car that didn't have a plate for a head unit even if I could afford one.

@grominwithrob1339 11 месяцев назад

I have an old Optimus home audio receiver in my garage. It sounds great feeding a pair of Polk audio towers.

@cburgess5294 11 месяцев назад

I own 2 sets of Optimus 7 Pro speakers. The have really nice drivers and tweeters, are in a heavy aluminum chassis and sound amazing for what they are. I use 1 set as my PC speakers with a Fosi BT30D and a small sub, and another set as bookshelf speakers with a sub. I have been using them since the 90s and they still sound amazing for the price.

@dyslectische 11 месяцев назад

Yes i have them here to in the Netherlands. With a nice sub with it its a good sound from the little monsters.

@mccbuddytaras6637 11 месяцев назад

man. i miss radio shack in the mid 90's. even if you didn't know what you were doing you could find all sorts of things to make things. it was a tinkerer's dream.

@cgreenfield6655 11 месяцев назад

Never underestimate the surprising sound quality of old RS products! Especially the minimus speakers

@TheSFFV 11 месяцев назад

Optimus we need you! Very cool seeing these old New stock units playing.

@cbrstar7145 10 месяцев назад

I sold a bunch of these bitd when I worked at Radio Shack. They were quite a bit more inexpensive then other brands, and the styling looked super modern at the time. The only drawback is half the people who bought them had no idea how to install them in their cars. People would leave them sitting loose and they would get damaged from flying around the back seat.

@kennethanway7979 9 месяцев назад

I still have a 12inch subwoofer from radio shack....non powered, but works great!

@Jonny2Fingers 11 месяцев назад

I purchased a set of these in the late 90’s from radio shack for the B pillars in my 1980 Jimmy that we made into a single cab pickup. Mine were branded Realistic up here in Canada when I bought them. They outlasted the life of the old truck.

@jeffbecker9809 11 месяцев назад

I always pick up items that are not trashed. I have found many of useful parts. Still miss Radio Shack.

@jdlech 11 месяцев назад

Back in 84, one of my first projects was to install a modular boom box into my brother's Chevette. The speakers detached, and it already used 12v worth of batteries. So it was nothing to hook up a transformer primary in series and short out the secondary to get rid of any buzzing from the engine. That created just enough of a voltage divider to reduce the 13.5v engine down to the 12v boom box. The rest was just happenstance that the boom box cube actually fit in the dash with minimal modification. My first try, I reversed the power and instantly blew the boom box outputs. I didn't even have to turn it on to blow them ICs. So I had to pull it out and replace them. That was a $25 mistake on a $90 project. I wish I had taken pictures. But any pics taken back then would probably be all faded by now. Or outright lost. The final result was pretty nice looking. Even if it wasn't the best sounding thing ever installed in a Chevette. Next project was installing a dubious sounding J.C. Whitney amp that may or may not have been much more powerful than the boom box. Of course, as all such projects go, my brother totals the car within months of getting it to sound right. And he never thought to pull anything out before junking the car. Just FML.

@michaelvela3410 11 месяцев назад

I always bought speakers from Radio Shack. They were always underrated.

@davedraeger4233 11 месяцев назад

people often under estimate Optimus audio radio shack held several patents on early home audio but back to car off brand rumors hurt them but they were just as good and better then some name brand back in the day just explore and listen thank you for content

@russellcrabtree5314 11 месяцев назад

I remember them. Optimus was a great speaker for home audio.

@willsteele9249 Год назад

Radio Shack had great products back in the day like the Mach series Speakers!

@wal Год назад

Agreed!

@2011joser 11 месяцев назад

Radio Shack was a great electronics store at the time . Their high end home audio was pretty good. I had a set of Realistic branded Koss made sq head phones as well as a Japanese made belt drive turntable with an actual wooden base. Their car audio was very hit or miss though. For car guys they were a good source for wiring supplies like connectors, cable ends, solder, etc. Keep these coming Big D.

@Sql253 11 месяцев назад

I got RCA branded receiver from RadioShack. It was made by pioneer. Still use it today,over 20 years old.

@thomasbradian6367 11 месяцев назад

That belt driven turn table with the wood base, was a pioneer, it also had a snake arm

@brockallentaylor 11 месяцев назад

I had a pair of these behind the seat of a Toyota mini truck driven off of a realistic amplified EQ and driving some 5 1/2 inch realistic door speakers in the early 90s, and for the time it sounded great. All stuff I found for $20 each at garage sales at the time. Man I miss those days.

@bigbabysmc 11 месяцев назад

Maaaannn, had 4 sd-79 tweeters and 4 3-ways in my 86 Monte Carlo on an Alpine 3528...with 2 Optimus 12's on Coustic 360. Man i miss Radio Shack.

@timandersen1602 10 месяцев назад

Had these plugged up the little bass port. Made for great highs. Had them for years.

@kevinb158 11 месяцев назад

I've bought 10's and 12's from the shack for my trucks back in the day really did like them

@MegaHz11 11 месяцев назад

If I remember I had some of these. I put them in the rear deck of my old Monte Carlo. They worked great and sounded good.

@ThickCutOhio 11 месяцев назад

Wow !!! I bought these for about 17 dollars when I was a teenager in a radio shack in a place called EASTLAND mall, in Columbus Ohio back in the late 90s

@jhershy1381 11 месяцев назад

I learned to drive when those cane out. Put those or somethin similar in back pillars of my parents 1982 caprice station wagon. Loved em. Was fun as a kid

@tlinrin887 11 месяцев назад

Radio shack had some fairly decent stuff back in the day, I miss that place.

@rwhipple73 2 месяца назад

I worked at Radio Shack back then. There were no such thing as surround sound or computer speakers back then but these are certainly the same as what would later be computer speakers. 15w each was pretty typical back then for this type of stuff. And from what I remember the SQ on them was pretty darn decent.

@FangOfTruth 11 месяцев назад

We finally lost Radio Shack. Was basically computer repair stuff. One thing about Radio Shack item is, in my opinion they were honest in what you were getting.

@N7-alpha 11 месяцев назад

Radioshack a shop I miss going to for small electronics and good quality over all.

@kennethanway7979 9 месяцев назад

I had an optimus home receiver. Traded it to my brother for a pioneer. The optimus was way better! The optimus is still rocking his garage! Bought it a good 35yrs ago.

@stormyyoung6344 11 месяцев назад

Cool speakers I went to Radio Shack twice as a kid I remember really enjoying it both times.

@xXGenuwineXW0lfensteinXx 11 месяцев назад

Speaking of ...i miss having my Optimus headphones ...they sounded good back in the day ...when i bought them at the radioshack store in the mall in Kingsport Tn .

@mattm2684 11 месяцев назад

I have some old small 2way Optimus bookself speakers with only a 4" driver and tweeter they sound great and still sell on ebay used for around $60

@FangOfTruth 11 месяцев назад

I still have a Realistic 80w+80w amp. Had a set Optimus bookshelf speakers. All metal,small and heavy.

@ihatedietcola7920 10 месяцев назад

I had a pair of those. I ended up with a couple of 10" wide pieces of PVC pipe 12" long and I glued wood rounds to each one and carpeted them and put the speakers in those with a 1" x8" piece of pipe for the port in each one and they suddenly had some decent bass to them for such low power.

@DreamBeamz 11 месяцев назад

I just got through watching your video. I use these for my rear speakers for my surround at home. I love them. Bought them new in the 90’s. They were a prized possession back then

@BlueDinnie 11 месяцев назад

Well now I don't feel so alone I would wait for the Sunday paper just so I can pull out the Radio Shack inserts That's where all my little pennies went back in the day...

@jordanhavel931 11 месяцев назад

My brother who originally had gotten me into car audio had a set of the pioneers on the rear deck of his dodge shadow, with a single JL 12 in the trunk.. it was definitely my favorite car to get dropped off at my friend's houses!

@whatcher8151 11 месяцев назад

I HAD THE NEWER MINIMUS METAL BOX SPEAKERS IN MY CAR, I THINK THOSE HANDLED 40 WATTS RMS, SOUNDED DANG GOOD.

@kenalexander1088 11 месяцев назад

I could see something like that mounted to the A pillar and a realistic 6.5 in the door or kick panel not sounding horrible in an old school budget build.

@Aaron48219 11 месяцев назад

I still have a pair of those 3" surface mount in that catalog pic. Optimus had some decent home audio speakers. Always wanted a pair of LX-10's.

@1rexrex 11 месяцев назад

Speakers finally worth using a Douk product with.

@Junkpusher77 11 месяцев назад

I had these in my first car

@bozanimal5576 11 месяцев назад

My first set of separates was Optimus. Brand were super hit-or-miss but, if you hit, it was a great value.

@clittle1559 11 месяцев назад

my 1980s smart phone was a radio shack catalog the size of a phone book... the red arrow and goldenarrow rc cars were badass

@adampaffrath4299 11 месяцев назад

I had a Optimus home theatre amp 4ch 150x4 on 2 Becker 15 dj speakers cabs and 2 12 cerwin Vegas in my bed room and my house vibrated like whoa . My Parents were cool lol . Bummmmp

@pocketPliers 11 месяцев назад

I actually bought a similar set like these for my truck in high school. My memory says they were pioneer, but they might have been from Kmart. 1997 was a long time ago.

@defaultdriftco00 11 месяцев назад

Optimus was quite the quality for the price. I sure miss RadioShack.😭

@Natetron1000 11 месяцев назад

I had an Optimus portable cd player. I wore out that device! These speakers look good although they are small. They seem to sound good too!

@keithbartlett7679 11 месяцев назад

Been cool to see the actual wattage they were receiving. 👍

@bigserge07 11 месяцев назад

I miss my 4adioshack, still own a pair of their Realistic Mach One speaker systems, with the original hurricane woofers.😊😊😊😊

@MrVRod408 11 месяцев назад

Get the whole house jumping with those 😂😂

@ghostemane85 11 месяцев назад

1996, New Old stock...... Helll Yeah!!!

@thomaspepera2711 11 месяцев назад

I miss working at RatShack. Those were the days.

@InFamousChizzi 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for putting me on to the Ice and Fire

@LionWithTheLamb 11 месяцев назад

Radioshack had manufactures make their Realistic and Optimus branded gear from major brands. For example their CB radios were usually made by Uniden and used identical or nearly identical internals.

@jdlech 11 месяцев назад

At 15W RMS per speaker, you're right to say don't expect them to get very loud. There are plenty of head units that would blow these speakers. Even some factory installed head units could. But pairing them with a nice 10" sub and perhaps crossing them over at 200Hz could work out for someone not really into a lot of noise.

@michaelparker5640 11 месяцев назад

Solid pair for the price 🥸 perfect for a vintage pioneer super tuner cassette player ✌️

@mista7314 11 месяцев назад

I remember having a set of these in my 78 impala. I was a Radio Shack junky.

@RichieRouge206 Месяц назад

These exact speakers were sold here in the UK back in the day under the PYE brand!

@chrisdeanndavison3626 11 месяцев назад

5:50 Dat bass be reflexin'!!

@jonanderson4474 11 месяцев назад

Smoke jacket blues is that jam.

@jamessouthworth1699 11 месяцев назад

I remember these being a decent solution in El caminos and single cab pickup trucks as well as the tiny rear deck of G-Body general motors cars .

@sunnyskiesblue 11 месяцев назад

RadioShack's "realistic" replacement speakers were actually pretty good.

@christopherpentland5375 4 месяца назад

I worked at RadioShack in 96 and remembered these. Not a huge seller if I remember. I'd love to see test of some of the Optimus home audio speakers. I'm still rocking the lx10 pro 40-4067 tower speakers and love them.

@Leonard-hk1nf 5 месяцев назад

I had the 90 watt version and they sounded pretty good at least at that time !

@getsum8931 11 месяцев назад

Optimus ftw boi!!!!!!!

@josedejesusperez4568 11 месяцев назад

I had a pair of these back on the day! Made my day watching this video! Great as always!!

@FiloYappins 11 месяцев назад

As a child of the 70s and. Teen in the 90s, I’m scrambling to find where I can buy some of the things you show!!

@Cubik303 11 месяцев назад

I remember these! I had a customer ask me to install a pair into his classic muscle car, rear deck. I was hesitant at first because I was afraid they wouldn’t sound good. I think he had a smaller 2-channel Coustic amp to drive them, if memory serves. I crossed ‘em over high, and had to mess around with placement on the rear deck to get them sounding good up front. Once I dialed it in, they sounded way better than they had any right to. I started recommending them to other customers who needed super budget speakers in a surface mount package.

@brianmack6285 11 месяцев назад

Would these be the same as the Minimus 7's? Or a later improvement?

@TRONMAGNUM2099 11 месяцев назад

Nice! I used to have some pioneer speakers just like it. They only handled 20w rms but they were loud. Paired with a Jensen bass tube I had some real beats.

@dyslectische 11 месяцев назад

Those pioneer are still sell today brand new.

@laurantsmccloskey5927 11 месяцев назад

I actually put an earlier model pair of those in the rear deck of my second car...a 77 old cutlass Supreme! I also had some type of small equalizer thing that went under the radio on the carpeted floor & seemed to boost the sound up a bit also from radio shack

@sictoday 11 месяцев назад

Loved me some optima stereo equips.

@LSnium 11 месяцев назад

You couldn’t tell those were from 1996, they look like some modern generic speakers you can buy today from the 99 Cents Store. But pretty impressive sound quality!

@TheDudeRc 11 месяцев назад

Funny. Your last video I was thinking that those speakers you tested kinda reminded me of these. lol

@chadallen7914 11 месяцев назад

I had a set of optimus 8in bookshelf speakers that sounded amazing for a long time on a 300w head unit.

@toddminchew1950 11 месяцев назад

My first system consisted of a radio shack Optimus 110 watt amp and a 8 inch radio shack sub

@JamesOKeefe-US 11 месяцев назад

Radio shack got me into electronics as a kid. Still remember having to get a single capacitor and sure enough their magic cabinets with all the drawers had it :) Thanks for this Big D!

@kramm9322 11 месяцев назад

Just when you thought it was going to be another flee market special...

@wal2 11 месяцев назад

Goteem!

@nearchd504 11 месяцев назад

These would sound good with home theatre system too.

@michaelfessenden8601 11 месяцев назад

I use do installs using those for mids and highs and an old school sub . 2 way electronic x-over small amp and not as small amp to these days standard. They sounded real good and clean. For mini trucks

@thatdude8247 11 месяцев назад

I had some of those back in the day lol

@2matador665 11 месяцев назад

I had those hooked up to a Learjet cassette player...they sounded aiitt!!

@Purple_Reign 11 месяцев назад

I remember those from radio shack. I had a couple of the Optimus Amps back then. Not too bad for cheaper stuff. Would love to see a review of the realistic eq/booster from radio shack

@clittle1559 11 месяцев назад

my dad had a Cadillac Deville had a optimus amp in truck and 1 "8 inch" 4th order bandpass... its crazy because i remember that little turd sounded nice