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Posted by Salectric on October 3, 2016 at 07:27:08:
This is a great thread with lots of useful advice. Just to muddy the waters a bit, if we are talking DIY versions of Altecs, I recommend using a 15" Jensen P15LL woofer instead of the Altec 414. I started out with a 414-8G (Alnico) with a 32B horn and 802-8G driver, in a 3.2 cu ft bass reflex cabinet. That worked out fine once I started using the Altec crossover from the 9849 speaker which used the same drivers and a 32B horn. The one complaint I had with it was the bass was not as weighty and satisfying as I liked. Eventually I switched the 414 woofer to a Jensen P15LL in the same cabinet with the same BR tuning. The Jensen gives me the low frequency weight and extension that I was missing with the 414. The crossover has to be reworked to accommodate the 16 ohm woofer but I still use the equalization network from the 9849 crossover. That eq network is very important to get the full potential out of the 32/802 combination. The crossover changes make this a DIY project instead of a standard Altec but the results are worth the effort in my opinion.