KRIKET 850 Home Stereo Speakers (not car) 1970s vtg AFS Acoustic Fiber

Rare circa 1973 AFS Kriket 850 Home Speakers in Original Box. Appears unused. Working. The speakers worked when we plugged them in. We cannot guarantee performance, but they sounded fine. The yellow vinyl has a letherette texture and is clean overall, but there are some light stains and minor soiling from storage, mostly on the bottom. The box was open during storage. The AFS labels are a silver sticker and they are staring to peel from age. We carefully wiped off the foam face which had some mildew spots, and the foam did not fall apart, so it's okay, but please be careful with the foam face, given the age and material. They measure 10" x 10" each. Below is a copy of the text from a 1973 magazine article about these rare speakers:
From: Radio Electronics Magazine, March 1973
"The fiberboard approach back in the early days when hi -fi was evolving from mono to two- channel stereo, a lot of budget- strapped do -it-your-selfers embraced the cardboard box concept of speaker systems. These were usually temporary makeshift affairs, enabling a fellow with a spare raw speaker to enclose it in virtually any handy cardboard box and use it until he could afford to buy a finished unit to match his existing system, or go out and buy a new matched pair of systems for stereo.
THE KRIKET MODEL 850 SPEAKER SYSTEMS by Acoustic Fiber Systems are in tooled leather and vinyls in decorator colors. Well, this concept has returned -but in a highly sophisticated form, and one that should have broad appeal to Ye Hausfrau with a yen for bright colors and unusual textures and designs. It should also appeal to the four-channel-hungry guy who wants to meet his wife nine-tenths of the way, but also wants reasonable sound quality. The concept returns in the form of the "Kriket" and "Nirvana" lines of speaker systems from Acoustic Fiber Sound Systems, Indianapolis, Indiana.
AFS touts the merits of fiberboard by describing it as "The Working Wall." A company brochure states that "The Working Wall is composed of two walls of tubes set at right angles to each other and bonded tightly together. The sound waves are absorbed into the tubes and are transformed into directional wave patterns opposing each other. This principle of polarization allows the sound waves to cancel themselves and leaves the speaker to perform unrestricted." In checking out two different pairs of AFS systems (Nirvana 400 and Kriket 850) we were convinced that the principle is valid; the sound emanating from the units was open and uncolored and was of an overall high quality, albeit a bit shy at the bass end in the "flat" response position. But a slight turn of the bass control corrected the shortage.
But let's get on to their appeal to The Lady . . . AFS systems come in cube or rectangular form in at least eight solid colors, and a variety of smooth -surface patterns, including straight stripes, undulating tiger stripes, polka dots. and marbleized. There are also a number of textured finishes including tooled leather, suede, vinyl and cork. The systems also come in housings with Indian rag-rug fabric patterns, and -believe it or not -in fake fur coverings. AFS is also experimenting with other materials and designs, to give The Little Lady a chance to truly express herself quadraphonically. The AFS speaker systems range from $29.95 per pair on up to $198 per unit, depending on size."

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