Remaging Altec 806a

[Barossi]

Hi,
does it make sense to send a pair of mint 806a drivers to Bill for remaging?

Greetings Barossi

[amh]

Hi Barrosi,

The 806A had the small magnet structure, so you probably want to have them as fresh as possible.

That said, they shouldn't de-mag unless they are overdriven or dropped. But then they wouldn't be mint would they

Shipping from Germany plus the re-mag might be pricey. Maybe find some 802s or 902s for close to same price?

[Todd W. White]

The problem is that unless you have owned them since they were new, you have no idea how they've been treated.

Even if they LOOK mint, they could have been sitting in a hot environment, been abused, or subjected to various destructive magnetic fields (not usually though - THEY usually provide the destructive magnetic field ).

That said, maybe you could have someone where you live who has a gauss meter measure them to see what they are doing...