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Iconic loudspeaker

Lansing Manufacturing · 1937

Evidence status · documented

Identity and core specifications are documented; some historical fields remain unavailable.

The Lansing Iconic of 1937 paired a 15-inch bass-reflex woofer with a horn-loaded compression driver. It grew from Lansing's [[shearer-horn|Shearer Horn]] work via the smaller Monitor System 500.

Introduced
1937
Category
Two-way loudspeaker
Intended use
Studio monitoring, adapted for reinforcement
Production
Lansing Manufacturing Company

Equipment photographs · 1

Lansing Iconic multicell horn speaker 1937

1 / 1 · Lansing Iconic multicell horn speaker 1937

Lansing Iconic multicell horn speaker 1937·Lansing Manufacturing Co. (1937)·Public domain

Why it mattered

  1. 01

    It made the 15-inch woofer plus horn the standard professional building block.

  2. 02

    It shrank theatre technology into a deployable cabinet, leading to Altec and JBL designs.

Engineering record

Configuration
15-inch bass-reflex woofer with a 285 driver on an 805 multicellular horn[1]

Original pricing

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2026 equivalent

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Sources

  1. 1IconicAudio Heritage · reference

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