Yoo!! Those are actually pretty bad ass! i wouldn't mind having those on each corner of my room banging out for a few years on my main set up honestly! lol
Aww yeah I remember those I had got a pair of those in a stereo shop back in 93 I put them in my back window of my 89 chevy spectrum lol with a set of phase 3 10's sounded not too bad back in the day in high school I was pushing the 10's with an old linear 300 watt amp with a pyramid phase 3 10 band graphic eg running to the factory 5-1/4's in the front doors and those pyramid gold 5 ways in the back window man I was proud of lol thanks for the good memories being brought back ✌
Everyone was getting into this speaker design in the '80's. Hitachi was well known for their 3D Super Woofer boomboxes. I had one as a kid, with the included surround speakers that mounted to the sides.
When i was a little boy i remember a good friend of my parents had a pair of these speakers in his car, i loved looking at them when the music plays and the lights in the dustcaps lit up😅😅😅
These boundary loaded off the back glass of an 80s Monte Carlo or Regal was the schiznitz. Toss in a booster-eq and you were ready to hammer your new Pyromania cassette. I know, I was there
The LED's are not as nice or dynamic as in something like a Vela Discolite, where they used incandescent bulbs. Also as far as I know, LED's add distortion and some other nasty stuff to the sound if they don't have some proper componentry, or being driven with their own signal and not being connected to same signal source as the speakers.
you have to understand that these were competing against some really cheap wedges, and pods. this type of speaker solution was very big in the 80s, as most cars and trucks back then had little to no speaker locations. this type of solution allowed you to have so many options! for example my little ford/mazda truck had only some 3 inch dash speakers..thats it!(and you had to go THROUGH the dash from underneath to get at them) being able to use something like this was game changing! also there were little wedge shaped things that could hold 4 to 6 inch speakers. you could mount them in the kicks, behind seat, on the roof, but sadly they were'nt very good. there were some really nice ones from Pioneer, some had square speakers! alpine and kenwood had some nice ones as well. ALL were very pricey. then you had Roadmaster, Jenson, and others that were cheap, ER but didnt sound very good.
My 91 Toyota Pickup I had in high school only had two 4" speakers in it and you had to completely remove the lower dash panels where the glove box was to get to them. I replaced the original speakers since they were blown with some cheapy blue coned Pioneers I got from Wal-Mart. I don't remember what the model was but I remember the cones had creases in them going outward like sun rays and the shroud for the tweeter always reminded me of an arrow-head. They sounded great for what they were but the tweeter needed taming. I remember having to turn down some songs since the tweeters would hurt my ears. :)
I had a set of these. I put them in my "boombox" and put some chritmas string lights in them because they were brighter. The holes in the grill would light up my room with dots. Thanks for reviewing these, now I know who made them. I was always curious as my neighbor gave me them, but out of the original housings. I specifically remember the green cones.
I remember these, i was always so interested in the green center dome of the speakers, they just looked so neat, even if the light in them didn't work (i actually preferred them with no light, just really liked the green center dome). With the advent of 3D printing you could probably just print another box for them seeing how the plastics of these old boxes are pushing up there in age and getting brittle.
I remember seeing that packaging during the late 80s also. Being poor and wanting a aftermarket stereo upgrade that was your first choice other than Kmart/Western Autos Sparkomatics (loved their 6X9s tho). Growing up in the Columbia, SC area Norton Stereo (original Two Notch rd location) carried Pyramid for the “budget minded” audiophile, I think I purchased one small pyramid amp and cassettes deck to go in my 1977 Cutlass S. The cassette deck was ok and pretty clear but the amp was horrible 😂. I didn’t find out about the flea market on US 1 until the early 90s.
Actually i would not put them into my car, but i think i would like them a lot in the office or my hobby workshop to listen to some realy cool 80s webradio station while working on a project...
Oh my gosh I think I FINALLY Found what my dad had. These were fairly loud from what I remember. When I was 7 that was in 1990 he picked em up at a flea market. But he was running them on a home stereo system. On top of the entertainment center. Thanks for posting this video it was driving me insane that I didn’t know what they were.
This reminds me of when I was a teenager and would connect maybe a 15 watt incandescent light bulb to the speaker outputs of my stereo so that it would flash to the music... A lot of fun back then 🙂
These boxes want to have the same tech filters like Bose prods on this era! With just 2 dome tweeters it can give greater sound... Thanks to show us a better view of 80's good scrap! My best from France!
FleaMarket gold! Big D, you need to find some Roadmaster speakers and test them! I always though Roadmaster was as low as you could go speaker wise. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
Remember the old clear top VR-3 branded amps Wal-Mart used to sell in the late 90's early 2000's? I still have a single-din VR-3 head unit I bought off of an acquaintance years ago. I've switched it in and out of several vehicles over the years and if I plugged it up to a battery it'll most likely work. :)
very neat peice of history right there!! i bought a 1981 ford e250 clubwagon van that has not been ran in over 20 years and it has this exact system installed! head unit doesent work in that van so i never really got to hear them there also hooked up to a 250 watt exploder amp! engine is pulled out now but i may keep those for decent midrange if they havent already been fried. of course ill be adding in two 18s with a police siren for the highs lol
awesome review! its amazing to see these speakers still work after all those years and also still sounded good for the price tag. I wonder if it is also good using it as a portable stereo listening speakers or a surround sound speaker besides using it on a car?
I used to have those. We're really cool back when 😅. Also, didn't sound bad for my standards back then; also. Good throw-back D ❤brings back some memories 😊
I am quite impressed. The two supertweeters (often piezo do nothings at best) are real horn loaded dynamic drivers. Piezo units would not use a capacitor either. Hat's off to Pyramid for 5 real dynamic drivers as advertised! :)
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I currently have a set of 44LEDs hooked up to my television goin through a lepai lp-2020a+ in front and a pair technics sb-lx70s in the rear. Better than most "sound bars", I'm sure.
I kinda miss the old days of half din accessories. Aka amps, eq's processors etc. I actually have some Pcb's I designed that fit on the top of 3in and 4in poll piece. They have an inductive coil with a rectifier into a 10 stage ziner based crowbar with 1uf caps and a ring of smd leds for a ring style vu meter that hide under the dust cap epoxy to the poll and lives off the back emf from the coil. As setup, it starts around 300w and peeks around 6kW when stuck to the top of a my old recone SP4 15
I'm betting the tweeters are dynamic and not piezo. They have iron backs which means there's a magnet and there appears to be a capacitor for high pass filtering. Piezos don't need those.
The pyramid speakers are a vast improvement over the sparkomatic trash oh matic brand that gave me a bad case of treble deftness that I still suffer to this day.
150 watts? not 15000 watts? If they were rated by Pyramid for 150 watts that means they were probably 10 rms! I had a some of the Pyramid 12" subs, the ones with the clear cone, they were OK they could hit pretty hard hear tthem blocks away and make cars next to mine shake (a little).
@@ase-asksomeoneelse5584 I remembered the series, they were Phase III Tenna. Yeah the 12s were pretty good. I also had the 10 band passive EQ and that was also pretty good. Later I had Pyramid Legacy 6x9s and those were really good.
@@rimfire2642 that sounds familiar now that you say it. Only been 30 years lol I think still have the 10 band eq. In the process of moving, maybe I'll find it.
@@ase-asksomeoneelse5584 My EQ was stolen out of my car. Police had it, but would not return it to me. I can't for the life of me remember what happened to the subs. I have a Fultron amp, 70x2 from that era. I've thought about sending it to Big D and let him put it on the dyno, it still works.
Those tweeters don't look like piezos. Piezos don't need a metal backplate. Or in-line capacitor, at least not at the power level these speakers were likely to see.
If a tweeter can be dismantled easily, you have to carefully lift the assembly out of the magnet. Using heat is advised if the fluid holds the voice coil. Then one has to clean the whole assembly with care. After cleaning a proper ferrofluid meant for tweeters or midranges with the right viscosity and particle size is added. I don't have the specifics on how to properly add it, but the amount needed is very little. EDIT: I wouldn't buy ferrofluid from other than speaker repair shops. Basic amazon stuff is more likely meant for just demonstrations and basic science stuff and not for a speaker, as the particle size may be way too big.
Big D Believe it or not the pyramid speakers have real coil type tweeters I had one apart recently that had that exact tweeters I thought originally the same that they were piezo electric but there not, you can tell this buy how it’s wired piezo ones are just directly wired where the coil type have a capacitor in line with it
@MuvoTX Yes, black with side slanted and gold and red lettering 74×2 I think bridge max 300 w. but I think Big D dino'd one and did not do that. But it was super clean and pushed my two realistic 15" in a isobaric box .
I wonder how parasitic the green LEDs add since they are directly across the speaker terminals? Granted green LEDs are typically quite efficient but still.... 🙂
straight from the swap meet......i know if you had pyramid gear in the late 80's, you'd get laughed at...atleast all the speakers were real and hooked up
The speakers are cool but the music choice is awful, that noise is the acoustic equivalent of vomit. When I see speakers like this I imaging hearing stuff like disco and 80's synthpop playing out of them, not modern garbage.
those belong in the back ledge of cheech and chongs led sled chev impala sitting on top of fake puma fur and surrounded by fuzzy dice and left over roaches
They remind me of the lowrider that picked up Steve Martin and John Candy in planes , trains and automobile's. His lowrider taxi had lights going everywhere to the music.
