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In Reply to: RE: Altec 1505B horns? posted by Joe Roberts on September 19, 2015 at 05:24:41
Fatter and richer tone indeed...
Pic and vid below courtesy of Thomas' blog from last year's ETF.
I enjoy reading your posts Joe. Either here or in Lenco or DiyA. I hope you post more often.
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I'm sometimes too unfiltered for forums. Hahaha.
Almost got kicked off DiyA and got a minor battle going here as I type.
Hey, I am an opinionated individual, what can I say? :op
That ETF Altec rig sounded quite good indeed. Great midbass from that LF cab too but maybe that was the Finemet transformers in the amps (hand carried in module form from Japan!) Overall, an excellent show of what audio is all about, for me at least.
In any case, Hiraga is the man for getting Altec to work at magical levels of performance. His 604 cabinet is the best I ever heard and 1000x better than my wimp experiments got me. Very serious focused audioman, Mr. Hiraga.
My tendency is to keep things simple as is reasonable and pick good parts that allow this approach, but Hiraga engineers stuff to death, then sets it up to death. Guess he showed me!
Hiraga is totally OK with me for showing up with that speaker system, towed in from France no less!
I jumped into this thread because I saw one of my brotherman audio guys making a potentially good move.
Large format Altec, or careful small format, although no longer free, is still a path to really excellent performance that most of us (here in the USA, especially) can still afford to put together.
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Free your mind and your ass will follow -- Parliament/Funkadelic
Mmmm.. Finemet core.. Hehe (thanks to Hitachi metals)
Yeah, it's with the crossovers, that's where all the blood, sweat, (and tears) starts..
Thanks Joe.
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