Anybody know what this thing is?

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Turned up on FB Marketplace. It's a cab with 20(!) tweeters. I've never seen anything like it.
 

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Turned up on FB Marketplace. It's a cab with 20(!) tweeters. I've never seen anything like it.
I've seen similar abominations ca. late 1970s/early 1980s. The tweets are dirt cheap Motorola piezoelectric units. Back in the day, they retailed for a few dollars. The apparent goal in using a wall of them was to get enough volume to keep up with other elements - e.g., horns with compression drivers - of a PA, but the actual result was a rat's nest of comb filters that smeared transients even worse than a single piezo did.

Pro tip: if a single transducer sounds like shit, a shitload of them will sound like more shit and stink even worse.
 
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