EXPIRED   For Sale Canton FONUM 60 Bookshelf Loudspeakers

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CANTON FONUM 60 BOOKSHELF SPEAKERS!

I have always liked Canton speakers, the company is a very old manufacturer in Germany and one of the few that made almost everything in house. Their vintage drivers are really nicely made, and with rubber surrounds they last a very long time.

This was a covid project, they were stripped and the crossovers rebuilt with new German made Bennic bipolar caps in the bass circuit, and Poly film caps in the mid/tweeter circuits. The old caps had drifted in value and needed replacing.

Rewired internally with high quality Japanese made copper cabling.

The cabinets had a butyl rubber dampening pad bonded to the inside back panel and internal damping is acoustic wool.

The cabinets are a dull black vinyl wrap, plain vinyl, I thought it would be nice to wrap something over the top that made them look a little neater, so found some black woodgrain wrap and did them in it, turned out really nice!

I left the original terminals on the back as I wanted them to retain their vintage looks, the perforated metal grills especially are very cool looking and detract very little from the sound, in fact I almost like them on more than off!

The Fonum 60 is an 8 inch 3 way speaker, well semi 3 way, it uses a small dome tweeter from 4900Hz up and a larger dome mid/tweeter from 900hz up, with a nice stiff paper cone main driver which is quite big for the speaker size. It’s a sealed box design so can be put on a shelf or close to the wall, bass is nicely reinforced this way too.

Sound is very detailed and natural, they are not bright, but have a lot of midrange presence with a very decent bass response that is fast and tight thanks to the sealed enclosure design. They are really enjoyable to listen to, combined with a good musical amp like an early NAD or a tube amp and you would have a system that belies its price point in a big way.

SPECS:

Woofer: 210mm stiff paper cone, rubber surround.

Mid tweeter: 30mm soft fabric dome doped.

Tweeter: 20mm soft fabric dome doped.

Response: 28hz - 30,000hz

Sensitivity: 88dB

Impedance: 8 ohms nominal.

Dimensions: 260 x 370 x 220 mm

Weight: 7kg each.

Local Melb buyers can meet up during daytime hours at a convenient location dependent on where I am going to be and where you are coming from, usually outer SE side. If you are close to where I travel am happy to drop off.

Also possible to box them and ship them but cost may be an issue depending where they need to go.