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One of the few Car Audio gifts that my wife got me for Christmas just showed up tonight.

A NIB LANZAR LXR 10" sub.









Still have 2 more things that have yet to arrive.

My first sub was a Lanzar OA15. A friend of mine had a pair of OA10s at the time, and another friend bought some SE12s. The DC was out of my budget.

Those were the good days of Lanzar if I remember right.

as for this LXR, I never even heard of it. What age are these woofers? (The OA, and SE I just mentioned were 1995-1996 I think)

IIRC, the LXR is from '88-95. This one is later in the production run, '93-95ish by the design of the LXR logo.

I loved the DC's too. I had their precursor, the LP's.

The sens on this LXR is 96dB. That's one of the things I miss about the old LANZAR products, high sens ratings.

check this baby out

Hey Ray , I'm going to call just not sure at what time for the number I have.

I have 2 of the 12" versions of those in my garage.

i got 2 of those when they came out, was running them in my monte but the box was too big for that car. i took them back out boxed them back up. i did sell 1 so just one left. only about maybe 8 hours total on this one,mint shape.

Why do you guys like these old subs?

Is it because they remind you of the better days of car audio?

I personally like old subs for collecting (historical) reasons, but there is no way I would ever put one of these in an installation.

Amp technology has not come very far (at least for Class A/B amps) since the late 80's, so I have no issue with using a PG MS amp in my vehicle.

However, sub technology has come a long way since then. There are countless subs these days (I am not saying every sub, that is for sure) which will blow these old subs away, both in output, and sound quality.

Also, many old subs die right in their original boxes while sitting on the shelf. Dry rot is a killer for a lot of these. And if dry rot itself will not get them, crystallized adhesives kills many more. I have seen my share of old speakers fail from the glue simply falling apart.

As much as I liked my Lanzar OA15 back in the day, if someone offered to GIVE me one of them today, I probably would not accept it. Maybe I would take it and sell it to a collector like you guys are, but for me, the space it takes up in my basement is enough to justify NOT keeping it.

I assume he like it all for the sake of old times but wondered if I was the only one.

While I think they sound real good, it does have a bit of nastalgia and the two 12" LPs were my first subs ever, I like the fact that they don't need a lot of power to get loud. 98dB 1w/1m and 350 wrms adds up to some serious out put. Also LANZAR states the power rating as a general guide line. They can handle more.

ttocs wrote:I assume he like it all for the sake of old times but wondered if I was the only one.

Personally, the reason I love the old stuff is that it's equipment I coveted as a college student in the early to mid 90s which I couldn't afford at the time. But now that's I'm technically an adult with a job, it's available, affordable, and, IMHO, more desirable then a lot of the new stuff today.

For example, I'll be posting pictures of and installing my Christmas gift soon: An old yet complete and very-good-condition set of MB Quart QSD 216 6 1/2" Q-Series comps. Would I love a set of new Focal comps? Sure, but it's not in the cards.

I am just a very sentimental person at heart.

wooferdog wrote:check this baby out

Nice! That 15" is old-school badass!

this is just one of a pair i got new and just held on to it for old time sake,they really did pound running off a ms 2125. the box needed for good low end was pretty big when doing 2 in a monte carlo.