Altec 604 speakers - eBay, Vintage Electronics, Electronics. (end time 05-Dec-09 20:33:22 AEDST)
I have no connection with this listing. It would be nice if they stayed in Australia.
Cheers, Marshall.
The Albert Studios website.
Studio Connections Picture Book - Alberts Studio 1, King Street Sydney
Also, click on Studio Story Book at the top of the page and check out the Smokin' story.
The site is both informative and entertaining. Well worth a browse.
Nice - and with cool history.
Now if you could just get Angus Young to sign them. :P
I'll try to make sure they stay here in Sydney.
I've not seen UREI units on white frames and grey magnets before. Is that common?
They exist certainly, obviously these Urei's have white frames...
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They would appear to be the 'Urei 800H Custom H.F. Horn'Originally Posted by magnarc
Search on my post RE: 'Urei Custom Horn Mod' :
http://www.hostboard.com/forums/alte...highlight=urei
Therein you should find a link to the Urei doc w/pics of it.
Interesting that they also came out of a studio, like mine purportedly.
Though mine came out of 'big red' monitors. Not actual big red cabinets afaict, but perhaps some built to similar spec., or Big Reds then later modified.
I should try to figure the dates on mine.
* Update/clarification: Mine are Altec 604e's, with the 800H horn affixed to them (perhaps by Urei or we'd suspect the studio engineer themselves). Now, worth mentioning, mine do have markings on each which might reflect that someone had done some 604e matching at some point (appeared to be Fs notations IIRC).
Will have to record and decode when I next pull them out.
The units in the OP picture look odd because of the old style connectors on the comp driver cap and the new style 16" white frames similar to a 421. The magnet structure and grey colour looks like a 604 E.
Magnarc,
GPA has a current version of these speakers. You could use the price of these plus $US450 approx.(shipping for 2) as a bidding benchmark.
Old covers can appear on newer speakers. And when Urei first ordered, the E was current. There ARE tangerine E models...I have seen them.
All that said, I do not think there is any way possible these are "H" models. Almost certainly E or early G models,
parts were phased in rather than a hard switchover date.
As far as value, I'd expect to pay $1200 US for a set of these, plus shipping.
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Where's the original spkr box ? Wouldn'd they be worth much more that way ?
Which AC/DC years please ? Would like to see some documented provenience.
These seem too gleaming & glossy to date back UREI Mfgr & Sydney AC/DC sessions
Just my hunch but I'm suspicious. Tho I don't claim to be a UREI expert.
UREI's I've seen had metal (I think) horn with slots & foam edges
And used 604-8G's ? ....which was last alnico 604, wasn't it ?
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