Identify these speakers/Drivers. Are they Linn?

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Identify these speakers/Drivers. Are they Linn?

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Hello, first of. I am sorry if i post this in wrong thread or wrong forum all together but i
believe that some of you may recognize these Drivers.

Well there are two of them and they only have this number 192 printed on the side.
See pictures in this link https://imgur.com/gallery/1bh8nXb

I think the magnet part resembles Linn SPKR 007/5
see these pictures https://imgur.com/gallery/VqrX5dG

are these a variant of the Linn SPKR 007/?
Or is it something completely different?

Thanks a lot for your time.
Best regards / Sneaky
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Completely different. It looks like a Kef B110, but I seem to remember other manufacturers making drive units which looked similar to the B110.

Probably best to ask Falcon Acoustics who bought the rights and original machinery to manufacture replacement B110’s
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Thx, yeah. the longer i looked the less alike they looked :D
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It doesn't quite look like the orginal B110 (either SP1003 or later SP1057). It's 'very' shiney and the coating goes further out to meet the edge of the suround. I wonder if it's a modern remake like Falcon so, like Spannko says, perhaps see what they think.
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Just had a closer look. The gasket looks like it’s a foam rubber. Linn used either silicone sealant (up to 1990’ish) or a hard rubber gasket (after 1990’ish), and don’t forget that the B110 was considered to be the best 4” driver of its time, so was used by quite a few manufacturers. My guess is that yours haven’t come out of a Linn speaker or even one of Kef’s own speakers because, as charlie1 said, they would be labelled “SP****”.
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