604-8Hs with a history on Oz eBay

**mah** · November 30th, 2009, 08:14 PM

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.

**mah** · November 30th, 2009, 08:42 PM

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.

**Panomaniac** · December 1st, 2009, 01:19 AM

Nice - and with cool history.

Now if you could just get Angus Young to sign them. :P

**magnarc** · December 1st, 2009, 06:41 AM

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?

**Old Guy** · December 1st, 2009, 10:00 AM

They exist certainly, obviously these Urei's have white frames...
Urei 813A - Audiokarma.org Photo Gallery

**Horn Savant** · December 4th, 2009, 01:47 AM

Originally Posted by Old Guy

They exist certainly, obviously these Urei's have white frames...
Urei 813A - Audiokarma.org Photo Gallery

Yes, why does this 813A have a different horn than Oz ebay model?

**gearfreak** · December 1st, 2009, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by magnarc

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 would appear to be the 'Urei 800H Custom H.F. Horn'

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.

**zelgall** · December 1st, 2009, 01:27 PM

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.