Altec 1594b!

**Todd W. White** · September 16th, 2009, 05:56 PM

I did a rental one time for U.S. Congressman Jack Brooks from SE Texas - seems they wanted to break ground for a new county jail to be named after him, perhaps aptly, and they had no power to power a sound system.

I used:

(1) Altec 150B Bi-Acoustic Horns on tall stands
(1) Altec 1592B Mixer/Preamp
(1) Altec 1590B Power Amplifier
(1) Altec D654A Microphone

The 1592 and 1590 were powered with two 12-volt car batteries wired in series.

Worked fine, and the 150B's sounded GREAT!

**bowtie427ss** · September 17th, 2009, 09:38 AM

Ouch! i was just looking at the DC current draw........................... and calculating how many cloudless days of solar collection it'll take for an hour of run time on a stereo pair with my current collection/storage scheme.

My current system is all 12 volt storage, but i can see 24 volt in the future and ultimately a pair of 1593's might not be out of the question.

This is a bit OT, but does anybody have any info, even from memory, on this little BGW?

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**Phil-G** · April 15th, 2013, 05:22 PM

so what do these things sound like. i'm thinking self powered a7s unless these are better suited for a PA system.
Altec 1594B Power Amp | eBay

**Audio_by_Goodwill** · April 15th, 2013, 06:05 PM

Originally Posted by Phil-G

so what do these things sound like. i'm thinking self powered a7s unless these are better suited for a PA system.
Altec 1594B Power Amp | eBay

That's a lot of weight to add to an already large and heavy box. I have the A version which doesn't re-sell well due to some kind of positive ground design, that I don't understand. I'm not currently using them. I did use one for a short while, and thought it sounded fine. They were designed to directly replace the green vacuum tube amps that do sell for big bucks, currently. From what's been told to me on the board, the 1593, and 1594 sound pretty good...... the 200 watt 1590 doesn't have enough top end for HiFi.