Hi folks, GarryB's post sounds very familiar to me. I too worked for Cizek at Bloomington IN in the early 70's in the old dairy building. The crew used to go to a nearby store for lunch consisting of a couple pounds of ham salad, a loaf of whole wheat bread, and Dr Pepper. There were several dogs and cats that lived in the shop, and slept in old fiberglass. Cizek would play basketball with us by hanging a tweeter with a constant tone feeding it behind the basket rim for location cues. I had purchased a pair of 10 inch Cizek speaker systems from an old college roomate, but had to go work for Cizek to get delivery. Then one Saturday while I was doing some work in the shop alone, someone stole them out of my van. Money was pretty tight. If you wanted to get paid, you generally had to accept payment in speakers and sell them. Officially I was supposed to be making $2/hour, but feel lucky to have collected about half of that in the 9 months I worked there. I made a run to Paducah for a load of 10 inch CTS woofers once, took out a loan to buy them, put them in storage, and sold them to Roy a few at a time as he needed per shop order. I didn't quite break even on that deal, since he couldn't pay for the last 10 or so. I got to help with mill set-up, cabinet gluing and clamping, crossover design, speaker frequency response testing with the B&K analyzers, etc. It was certainly an exciting time. Once one of the cabinet crew freaked out on acid and we had to take him home for his own safety. Another time the crew worked on restoration of Cizek's house, which had been damaged by a fire while he was renting it to college students. The towers were just being designed when I left. They used 2 of the CTS 10 inch woofers in each cabinet. I was given the partially assembled cabinets from a pair of towers and a damaged belt sander in lieue of back pay. (I still have these, but never got them completed before the foam surrounds rotted out of the woofers...) This was slightly before Roy and Ron left for the east coast. My roomate got married and I moved back to Ohio. (Ended up in Iowa too...) I think I have a brochure from the speakers I originally bought that were stolen. If I find it I'll try to send it for posting. Tom
