Think INSIDE the box! | 1974 Sonab OD-11 Cube Speaker | FOAM ROT REPAIR - Does it sound any good? 

Thanks for this video, very interesting type of speakers. The only manufacturer, what I know, uses this up fire speaker system is Temporal Coherence. I once listen to them and they sound phenomenal.

Amazing video, thank you very much!

Great restoration/repair job. I love quirky off the wall designs like this. Especially when they actually bring decent sound to the table. Used to have some Grundog Globe speakers and they sounded amazing. Keep up the good work, as this sort of stuff is getting more and more rare every day.

I have a set, as well as two other bigger Sonabs. The proper set up in the literature says close to the back wall and the tweeters aiming front and out. There is a left and right with Sonabs, but these are versatile in that one way gives a wider soundstage, and the other a more centred soundstage. Thanks for the great video and for saving those amazing little speakers.

That horseshoe arrangement indicates an Alnico magnet rather than a cheaper ceramic magnet. Love Scandinavian design speakers, just picked up a pair of 80s Bang & Olufsen Redline 45s from a recycling shop that sound ridiculously good for their age and look VERY cool.

Many thanks Sir, this your hommage to our own SWE Stig's speakers, and you all the way from the Antipodes! And a contest to you, dear followers, you just try your best to find a sexier speaker - new or vintage - than a pair of these, carefully restored all the way with new surface treatment of the veneer and everything! And then comes its sound - where does this wiiide sound really come from? - Jezzzs. What have the loudspeaker engineers been doing during these 50 yrs?

What a great set of loudspeakers from when I was about 15 years old, I would not mind making something like this myself! 🙂 I just love the concept. Did you restore the Crossover as well?

Excellent! 👍 I happen to be a Swedish speaker myself…😁

I have a pair of OD 11 as well. Picked them up in a thrift store too. Sadly the Peerless drivers (you have the MK1 version by the way) were replaced with Monarch / Monacor drivers. Altough they were a lot newer they needed refoaming too. But I doubt they are true to the Sonab sound. So I was on the lookout and found a pair of Sonab OA 14 speakers with the Peerless SC-165 (MK2), that should have been in the OD11s as well. I thought eh OA 14 were shot but the drivers potentially usable, but after a good clean and refoaming they look and sound great. Then I decided on getting the matching Receiver by Sonab the r4000. When buying the receiver the seller had a pair of Sonab OA 5 speakers sitting there. I got those too. They have Philips drivers and Peerless Tweeters (5 of them pointing in all different directions). Everything is in mint condition apart from the dust. Even that is not a problem. You remove the grill, dust if off a bit and repeat every couple of months. The sound of all 3 speaker pairs and the r4000 is stunning. Warm and very wide (they are omnidrectinal after all). If you come across Sonab, I suggest you pick them up. Both the speakers and the receivers are incredibly reliable and durable. They build a shitload of the speakers. At one point every swede had a pair. But after 40 years they are becoming rare and prices are on the rise. The design is very distinct 70s but in a unique way. All Sonabs are firing upward and have a detachable grill (for cleaing purposes I guess). Great video this, I very much enjoyed it and subscribed to you channel.

I'm wondering if placement would be bad if I had a TV console in between two of these. Its a hefty old 60's Curtis mattes console

Interesting! I wonder if you could get away with sitting them on the floor with the port up against a wall. Might have to flip them as well so the tweeter isn't pointing into the carpet.

I have exactly the same problem with foam rot , where did you buy the foam and what size?

Pointless video.. what is the point of reviewing an ortho acoustic speaker when you don't place them as they were intended. And why not research the speakers first.. Carlssonplanet has all there is to know on them

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