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In Reply to: RE: RCA posted by Steve Schell on June 15, 2012 at 23:46:52
"Note the third system from the front: it is a small 800Hz. theatre system utilizing Iconic components."
Yeah, that thing is very cool. Looks like a miniaturized WE front horn baffle but surely it is sealed box on the rear rather than open back. Always wanted to know more about that one.
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Hi Joe!
I have poor, retouched front and rear photos of this system in an old Altec service manual. It was called the 18-W-8 system, and unusually for the era used permanent magnet drivers. The 901 h.f. driver was used with the H-808 tar filled (Iconic) horn. A 1565 15" woofer was mounted on the H-24 horn baffle, whose dimensions are listed as 84" wide by 60" high by 18 3/4" deep. The woofer just hung off the back with no rear enclosure. So it was just a short, straight sided front horn terminating in in the flat baffle. Maybe it didn't sound too bad, though it didn't stay in the line for long. The 1565 woofer was described as having efficiency down 4 dB. compared to the 415 field coil unit. Yeah, ain't it the truth!
That is wild! I didn't know that the open baffle front horn scheme survived the WE wide range era!! PM, no less!
The above-mentioned link is the only pic I ever saw of that exotic system. Love to hear one but this will probably never come to pass...
Sure is a amazing collection.
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