I spent all of my New Years eve and New Years day cleaning, repairing and finally firing up this late 1930’s Lansing Iconic speaker system. Luckily my good friend of 40 years Joe Uyama, from Sunlight Engineering, was available to answer a few last minute voltage and polarity questions. And luckily I had a NOS RCA 5Z3 handy. This Lansing Manufacturing Iconic speaker system was placed in this home brew prototype cabinet by a Lansing employee in the late 1940’s. It sounds incredible. One could argue the Lansing Iconic speaker system is the most influential loudspeaker systems ever produced. The Lansing Iconic was the first successful two-way system using a 15" bass-reflex driver and high-frequency horn. Which to this day is the most common configuration of professional loudspeakers. My good friend Rick Rubin laughed at this video clip and asked me “Did Fred Sanford finally go out of business?” But his laugh was not as loud as mine was, the time I watched Rick Rubin having his heavily damaged nearly deaf ears examined by an ear doctor. Only a deaf producer could sit through todays hit recordings. #vincentgallo #vincentgalloartworks #vincentgalloclassifieds #rickrubin #chilipeppers #beatsbydre #recordingacademy #ladygaga #bose #china #warnermusicgroup #sonymusicentertainment #universalmusicgroup #finneasoconnell #iammarkronson #The_Hearing_Impaired #loveVincentGallo