511E... factory or DIY?

[speakerdave]

Originally posted by bfish:
Nah, that scene was 27 years ago, the picture last Monday. The '80 spat started as one of those "you spend more time with that *** guitar then you spend with me" things.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Your ex-lady may have missed a good thing. One of Mingus's wives said she would wake up in the night and Mingus would be playing bass in his sleep and she would be the bass.

Judging from the photo you posted, it looks like the screw has turned again for you, bfish.

David

[aauwen]

I have a pair of 511E horns and they look like the shorter horn with 1 lug. One of the horns has a label in the mouth that IDs it as a 511E.

[bfish]

Weren't there some road boxes with 511s/292s for MI around '76? I don't see them in the catalogs, but I have seen them.

[bfish]

Like the 1242, only large format. Can't find anything to support it though.

I'd never paid the "horn" column of the '75 reference much notice till now. There's a goodly number of 511Cs and 511Ds too, though all are 1".

[Old Guy]

Originally posted by bfish:
Weren't there some road boxes with 511s/292s for MI around '76? I don't see them in the catalogs, but I have seen them.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Only thing I know was the MI 292/805 combo that sat on the folded horn MI job.


http://www.lansingheritage.org/image...-mi/page10.jpg

I suspect that's what you are thinking of. The 292 was invented for that app.

Just before Altec brought out the improved HF drivers they dumped tons of 291's on 511's.

This was 77. But I still didn't see 511E's till 78.

Give up? They used the 1.4 to one inch adapter turned around to put the big driver on the little horn. Can you say yuck?

A number of sets like that have shown up on Fee Pay.

[GM]

You're right, it was from '59 - '72, but the 9848 came along around the end, so had to have influenced the chopped up 511 in lieu of a new design and I guess that once the 9848 was officially dropped sometime after '75 they had some 31189 horn stock to unload, ergo instant 511E.

[Old Guy]

For those interested:

http://www.lansingheritage.org/html/...akers/9848.htm

[bfish]

Yeah OG, I might have a memory of the face of one and the butt of the other. It's a learned habit...

If I read it correctly, TL220 was published in Feb., '73. It lists a 288-8A with a "511" horn, but no mention of application. Puts GM's timeline right on track.