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little black box
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 5:14 pm
by NappyFro
My friend is trying to say this thing he calls the little black box is better than the bass cube. He claims it was made by phoenix gold back in the 90s, but never was put into production. Anyone ever heard of this thing before, and any more info would be great, cause if it is better than the basscube, i want to try to buy it from him
Re: little black box
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 6:15 pm
by ttocs
looks like a cross over to me but not sure on brand. The circuit board would tell you what you need to know. Been painted over what ever it was.
Re: little black box
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:19 pm
by NappyFro
Its diffently not a xover since it only has one set of rca output. Maybe morgan can shed some light on this subject, cause im wondering if the dude is pulling my chain.
Re: little black box
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 10:30 pm
by kg1961
way more pics needed
Re: little black box
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:41 am
by jbob0124
Open it up and have a look...
Re: little black box
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 5:32 pm
by davewaibel
I have seen a lot of pg proto's and that definitely doesnt look pg to me
Re: little black box
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:05 pm
by NappyFro
I will try to get more pics of it, and the guts. im gonna pm morgan to see if he can comment on this piece before we crack it open, and maybe destroying it...
Re: little black box
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:01 am
by ROBSCUSTOMSAPK
Looks to me like a low pass filter with a bass boost. Little black box that many people refer to is a mtx lsb1. I have 2.
Re: little black box
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:32 am
by NappyFro
This is what morgan replied via pm
MW3 wrote:This looks like a prototype of the basscube from wwwwaaaaayyyy back. How did he get his hands on that?
Do you work at Radioactive in Garner, NC?
Morgan
Re: little black box
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 5:41 pm
by MW3
I have never seen this black box, but it certainly looks like a Basscube proto.
Would have to see the guts to confirm its a PG item, but the screws, sheetmetal and potentiometers match pretty closely to what we used at that time.
I am curious what is the button or pot in the lower right hand corner says?
Re: little black box
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:57 pm
by NappyFro
I will see the guy tomorrow, so ill try to talk him into letting me take snap shots of the guts.
Re: little black box
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 4:24 pm
by NappyFro
heres a gut shot of the internals, sorry for the crappy iphone pics
heres some better shots of the outside unit it self
he also let me take a snap shot of these prototypes
m50 with the silver heat sinks.
the prototype mx2
Re: little black box
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 4:53 pm
by ttocs
cool stuff who is yer friend?
Re: little black box
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 5:01 pm
by NappyFro
he is the owner of radio active in garner, nc...he also used to work at soundsolutions/new sound in the northern virginia back in the 90s
Re: little black box
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 5:42 pm
by MW3
Internals match was PG used at that time. Looks legit to me.