Merry Christmas...it's been a while

[Steve Mac]

Life got busy....but I never forgot how much help I received from this forum.
Hope everyone is doing well and building big speakers!

Probably the only think I never shared with the system I built(with lots of help from here)...were the final addition...super-tweeters!
I had some cheap ribbons...but I wanted an all horn system so I saved my pennies and waited until I could add the Fostex tweeters.

I don't really have the acoustics in my house here in Alabama that I had in Indiana...that was a dam near perfect room for audio,
but the next home will be designed around the stereo.

Here's a link with the tweeters in place:
http://www.superbadcat.com/images/stereo/stereo_01.jpg

Merry Christmas to all and thanks for keeping the Altec tradition ALIVE !

[Altec Best]

Thanks Steve for stopping by to say Hello and Merry Christmas ! Hope you and yours have a great Holiday season !

[Art J.]

Merry Christmas...it's been a while ,applies to me also. I look in here time to time and hope everyone is well. Don't have much more to contribute. My 9846's are still cranking after being rebuilt in 2004 with help from here. They got a workout playing all day today with traditional Christmas music like "Kings Collage" with the deep organ passages that shake the house. They never fail to impress. I wish all a happy new year and continue this great board. Thanks, Art

[juniper]

Happy holidays to ALL!!!!!!

[Earl K]

Merry Christmas !

Steve, here are some of your pics ( direct link ) .




And a link to your, "superbadcat" web presence .



PS : I don't know what's up with all these ( unwarranted ) "redirects", now happening here at Hostboard .

[Altec Best]

PS : I don't know what's up with all these ( unwarranted ) "redirects", now happening here at Hostboard .

I'm already on it Earl.. Steven is looking into it now..They just did some more software updates and you know and I know with updates sometimes comes unseen issues.And these re-directs are one of them.

[Altec Best]

Yeah Steve save your pennies is right ! The T500AMKII which those look like are $1034 each...

[GM]

Life got busy....but I wanted an all horn system so I saved my pennies and waited until I could add the Fostex tweeters.

Happy Holidaze and all that jive!

I know all about ?life? getting busy! It?s been going on 15 yrs since my Altec system got zapped and still just huge dust collectors despite the help of various generous folks both here and on other forums.

Oh well, where there?s life, there?s hope, so one more time......'maybe next year'???.

Those are really ?sweet? sounding [super] tweeters to my well abused hears! Way back when, me and a couple of local Altec centric folks experimented with 802s coupled to short super tweeter horns to good effect, but didn?t have any quality consumer units to compare to. I?m guessing though that they would be a distant second to an appropriately sized one for the BW such as the Fostex.

GM

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Steven is looking into it now..

Hmm, easy to wonder if it's intentional, what with it redirecting to a 'contribute' header.

GM

[Alien_Shore]

wow, the FR on that T500 is unreal. Definitely would need a nice EQ on that to take care of variability in source material.
If Santa would only....

[Altec Best]

Hmm, easy to wonder if it's intentional, what with it redirecting to a 'contribute' header.

GM

I assure you GM it is Not.. Steven sent me a PM to say it has been identified and fixed... But there is a bug in one of the features that has been disabled until they can fix it.