Yellow M90?

[=ml=]

Is this an authentic Victor M90 colorway or just faded VUs and radio dial:

Go!

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[Superduper]

It's authentic. M90's came with yellow and red meters. However, orange meters are probably faded red.

 

[mmcodomino]

It's authentic. M90's came with yellow and red meters. However, orange meters are probably faded red.

Ya, right . That's why the blue speakers are almost faded to white too .
I have never seen a pic of an M90 in a sales brochure with yellow meters .
The original Japanese ad for the M90 shows one with blue speakers and red VUs. I am sure that's how they came.

 

[woobwoob]

The original Japanese ad for the M90 shows one with blue speakers and red VUs. I am sure that's how they came.

can I see this ad somewhere?

 

[mmcodomino]

The original Japanese ad for the M90 shows one with blue speakers and red VUs. I am sure that's how they came.

can I see this ad somewhere?

There you go:

 

[Zippy]

Is it me or do the chrome caps in this ad look bigger than they actually are?

 

[mmcodomino]

Is it me or do the chrome caps in this ad look bigger than they actually are?

That's what I thought too but I am guessing it is a prototype that was photographed for the ad

 

[woobwoob]

Wicked!!

I found two others (since I'm new to this forum you might already know them...):

 

[floyd]

my original m90 has red , the other i got from the pawn shop has yellow meters so i know they came with 2 different options or whatever.

my original my has nice dark speakers ,and the one from the pawn shop has gray speakers so there must be 2 options or variants there as well , even though both sets are the same blue color on the back of the cones.

 

[mmcodomino]

my original m90 has red , the other i got from the pawn shop has yellow meters so i know they came with 2 different options or whatever.

my original my has nice dark speakers ,and the one from the pawn shop has gray speakers so there must be 2 options or variants there as well , even though both sets are the same blue color on the back of the cones.

The red and blue fade because of the sun and humidity. They all came with red meters and blue cones originally.

 

[blu_fuz]

There were 2 versions like Norm said


Red VU with blue woofers
Yellow VU with gray woofers

 

[Jwrok707]

Yellow M-90

 

[AZA]

There were 2 versions like Norm said


Red VU with blue woofers
Yellow VU with gray woofers

mine has red VU with black woofers.
The woofers are much darker than the grey and
im certain not a faded blue???

 

[gsbadbmr]

, i never knew this .

I thought the yellowish/orangey M90 VU meters were like that from FADING ...because that's what it looks like to me. I only like the RED VU meters on my M90's

 

[redbenjoe]

yikes

once i had that version with the grey woofs --thought there were just faded -
so i painted them blue
:annoyed: :'-(

luckily --nobody reads my posts --so noboidy will ever know

 

[baddboybill]

I think the yellow meters are the rarer of the two.


Bad Boy Bill

 

[mmcodomino]

Guys...stop all that BS

ALL M90 woofers are blue from the back which proves that they were originally blue and just faded .
The best example is bredgeo's ex-M90 which is now with Zippy. One speaker is faded and one isn't.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

 

[blu_fuz]

Bull


There are 2 different versions. Why are there no gray woofs on the M90s with red VUs???? And why no blue woofs on the M90s with yellow VUs????

 

[mellymelsr]

I think I will take take the word and expertise of a collector like Norm over someone who just started collecting... ....Norm is correct. ...it also appears the strip on the radio dial is gray as well. Plus I seriously doubt the fading would be perfectly uniform unless the M90 was outside laying on its back all day...

 

[Superduper]

Meters don't just fade from red to yellow with no shades in between. Also, when have you ever seem any meter all faded as commonly as you find them on M90's. Also, sure, it's possible for blue woofers to fade from blue to lighter shade of blue. But how do blue woofers fade to dark gray or black? Excuse me.... FADE.... Hellooooo?

You need to understand the M90 speaker construction which is different than other speakers. Sure all M90 speakers are blue from the backside. But JVC's own advertising states that the M90 uses new Urethane laminated cones. But only the front of the speaker cones were laminated. The backside remains paper just like on the M70. That means the front of the speaker cones have a layer of urethane attached in some way. Was this color clear or gray or black? Maybe all of the above were used. In fact I think that dark gray is far more common than blue on the M90.