Technics SB-7000

Data

General

• Manufacturer: Technics
• Model: SB-7000
• Type: Loudspeaker
• Years of manufacture: 1977 - 1979
• Made in: Japan
• Color: black and white lacquer, rosewood veneer (Japan only)
• Dimensions: 845 x 480 x 410 mm (HxWxD)
• Weight:
  • SB-7000: 36kg
  • SB-7000 A: 33kg
• Original price approx.: 1'450 DM
• Last time in 1979 on sale for less than 2000 DM / pair

Technical data

• Type: 3-way bass reflex, floorstanding speaker
• Chassis:
  • woofer: 1x 350 mm (cone)

midrange driver: 1x 120 mm (cone) own resonance chamber

• • Tweeter: 1x 32 mm (dome)
• Power handling (nominal/music): / 150 W
• Efficiency: 93 dB (1W/1m)
• Frequency response: 40 - 20,000 Hz (±5 dB)
• Crossover: 38Hz - 24kHz -6dB
• Impedance: 6 Ohm

Variant

• SB-7000A: without bass reflex port and Helmholz chamber; only with one bass reflex tube; weight saving approx. 2.5 kg

Special features

• Control switch for midrange and tweeter system
• Phase correct coil position of the different speakers
• Bass reflex channel
• Special phase-corrected crossover (a novelty in 1976)

Remarks

• Other models in the same series:
• Technics SB-4500
• Technics SB-5000
• Technics SB-6000
• Technics SB-7000

[1]

• SB 7000 and SB 007
• There are still the models SB 7000A and SB 6000A each without bass reflex port,
• instead with a simple (inexpensive) bass reflex tube

[2]

Pictures

• excerpt from brochure: Technics SB-7000

• Excerpt from brochure: Technics SB-7000, variants Japan