Dear Vicki Marion

I've probably known Altec Products before you even heard of the name. I was wondering
why the company that you control has shut it's eyes on the professional line .

Your missing on a good market niche. The Altec drivers are the best speakers ever produced.
They have the most resolution or definition and efficiency.

If your intimidated by the new products introduced by JBL and EV and VDOSC.

You can compete by collaborating with Bill in designing a driver with Neodymium magnets.
This reduces the weight of the driver by ½ half.

Then a line array is possible for Altec and you could reintroduce also the VOTT line for commercial cinema.

I'm just trying to help.

You have a big name to carry. Computer speakers wont give you full satisfaction.There will always be something that is just not right about your company.

Concerned

P.S. Please E MAil me for futher discussion.

2. You WAY underestimate how hard it would be to compete with the manufacturers already entrenched...and you mention just a few when the list is closer to 30.

With 30 big manufactures- by struggling to an even share Altec could get 3 % of the market.

And all this in today's economy. Just plain flat ain't gonna happen. You keep repeating the answer is neodymium speakers...

The only answer for Altec would be as a boutique brand- one of the last refuges for crazies like us. Both GPA and Iconic realize that I think- they can't compete with the "crank 'em outs" price wise- so don't try.

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Sound is nothing but disturbed air molecules, in an organised fashion.-Bob Brozman

The only way they could come to this was to reduce the weight of their drivers in half.

I prefer the positive outlook and the possibilities . Don't forget they have the name Altec Lansing .

You stick that name on a EON speaker and you would probably sell 500,000 units.

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bfish

"We're going ALL the way, till the wheels fall off and burn!"
Bob Dylan/"Brownsville Girl"

BTW the Eon driver isn't mounted in the cabinet...the plastic frame is molded as part of the cabinet...

If that's what Altec would have to do to survive, let it die...

Again, I think you have all the wrong approach.

Altec shouldn't be building speakers to compete with a company already in place.

And no, Altec won't sell more than JBL.

Most buyers know Altec as computer speakers. Those of us here are a dying breed.

The only way Altec could make a comeback is if I hit the lottery. I'd make Plantronics an offer, get the name back, and probably work with Bill on reissuing all the old Alnico stuff and bring in some new designs...

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Audio_by_Goodwill
Michigan, USA

Not enough of them to sell 500,000 Eons- and sound men who know what they are doing don't buy Eons either.

I'm just trying to communicate that I think Altec, if it were to make a comeback, should start out trying to make a few customers happy rather than please the masses.

Convergence keeps saying "line arrays', neodymium" and I keep telling him no, Alnico reissues and designs developed from them.

Plus, say, the 3184 and select pieces of the newer stuff.

Take a look at this.

Main towers

Side fills

What's in those towers?

What's on stage as monitors

Wow EON!!

This guy must know what he's talking about.

The towers were already playing songs by Crosby Stills and Nash and The Band, two groups Bill worked with. They found their first use in Central Park, working for the New York Metropolitan Opera.

No more explaining to do.

I forgot to mention that this was a Bill Hanly set up winner of the prestigious Panelli award.

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"those sounds to which no definite pitch can be assigned are usually classified as noise"
harvey fletcher-1928

You never get facts straight.

Do you really think an Eon sitting on a Crosby Stlls Nash stage is going to be exactly what you buy in a store?

You aren't a professional sound man. Go to any of the pro sound forums and ask about Eons.

One company using what may or may not be a modded pair doesn't prove anything, except it's more important to you to win.

Give me some statistics on how many pro sound companies use Eons, instead of poking around till you find one picture to support you when you are wrong.

Convergence is trying to get them to re-open it..he mentions Eons.

I'm taking the position- why?

The Altec I remember didn't manufacture Eons.

I think the Altec I remember might still make it as a very service oriented low volume manufacturer of quality.