I own lovely vintage Enbee Model Designer Series Speaker Systems 100 Watts RMS made by Mr Nishi Nakra of ENBEE , New Delhi in the 1990s - 2speakers bottom unit and 2speakers top unit total 4 units details as below :
DRIVERS:
One Enbee 12 inch Woofers housed in one enclosure unit
Two Enbee 4 inch Midrange units } housed in another enclosure unit
Four Enbee 3 inch Tweeters} do
Four Enbee 2 inch Tweeters} do
FREQUENCY DIVIDING NETWORK with optimiser- 7 way.
DUCTED PORT BASS REFLEX
FREQUENCY RESPONSE 20 Hzs to 20 KHz.
ONE ENERGY CONTROL EACH FOR MID RANGE & TWEETER UNITS
POWER HANDLING - 100 WATTS.
Kindly can any forum member tell me what price I will get if I decide to sell these speakers in good condition only the mesh on wood grill needs change. Thanks
Hi! I too have these classic speakers with complete surround system and matrix , 12 channel equaliser for each and pre-amp as well as One power amp. I had been following EnnBee since I first saw it in
Asia72 at Pragati Maidan. Yes, Asia72 and thereafter, when he opened a set up at Shankar Market, I would keep dropping by and loved to spend time with him, his interaction with Bose and his love for cars and passion for professional sound.Each year, something new would come up and the systems would keep out of my range till one day, Mr Nakra decided to freeze the system and told me he will keep that for me and whenever I would be ready, I could take it. From 28k, the price moved up to nearly 40k, but that classic speaker set was the last one he made and kept it aside.
I was very happy to see BBC made a feature on him and his journey with music systems. He had been way better than Bose. Yes, way better than Bose. In fact, he had on occasions shared some better technologies and designs, especially on speakers with him. Mr Nakra had been designing custom systems also but that would have cost more than twice the price I paid At his home, he has that custom system, designed specifically for his living room and the furniture pieces. OUT OF THIS WORLD.
Some years ago, the speakers seemed to have had some frayed wires/ some wear, which resulted in shocks to one channel of power amp, thus blowing it up. I am in Pune since several years and was looking for a keen engineer like Mr Nakra for several years but never had the guts to take the system to their lab to repair. A friend who had designed and begun manufacturing similar systems (very high end), said he will try with his engineers. Unfortunately, it was a challenge coz the components were al BEL manufactured and we could not get the same batch, so he did some Jugaad which resulted in two channels circuits blow up. At that time, this friends amp and speakers with similar output were costing upwards of 35 lakh. He has his shop at the Blue Diamond but his main market is europe and US. An austrian engineer designed over some 4-5 yrs and I had witnessed the stages it went through. It was impossible for me to imagine affording such an expensive system especially when I took almost 6 yrs to put about 40k those days to buy this quarter set as it was expandable to four times the setup I bought. Those days I had turn-table, cassette deck, discman and radio connected to it.
Fast forward, some 5-7 yrs later, I got yet another person visit me and saw the system. He had to say that the system could qualify to re-sell upwards of 20 lakhs as the speaker boxes were equally well made and solid. A very carefully worked out designing and calculations for the entire system. I too did think of selling it and hoping to get about 30 lakh, which he believed could fetch but advised me not to sell since this system was a piece of art to near perfection. The only drawback he pointed was absence of specs. I was in the forces and had been travelling and I did manage to retain the diagrams and some notes Mr Nakra wrote in his own hands, kept, but VERY UNFORTUNATE now, I could not find them. Today, I see some specs here which may be helpful to him to make out another circuit with some other manufacturer and work out values. While the components are hardly any cost, but the balancing is a huge task which may take several days.
So the speakers could easily give you upwards of 12 lakhs and if in good condition, not sluggish, may be close to 16 lakhs. With someone who understands and is a collector, you may get 2o lakhs also. BUT, like I said, unless you are finding it hard to hold them, keeping them is what was advised by this engineer.
REQUEST : I have a desperate requirement of same batch components for all four channels with the power transistors, all of BEL, to get my amp return my system to its original shape. Getting to repair speakers is not an issue, but I guess I must service them coz that is where it took beating. Mr Nakra had serviced the entire system, including speakers and connectors sometime in 2006 before I left delhi on posting.
