Quote Originally Posted by DaveCan View Post
Interesting that no one was really interested?? Could it maybe be a size and wife issue thing I wonder? They are big! It's too bad that the speaker cab's don't get their due respect and allotment in the furnishing arrangements nowadays and worked into the design etc..

I remember as a kid almost everyone who was older had one of those big console beautiful wood stereo cabinets, some sounded really good too. My Grandma and all the older Aunts had them as part of the required pieces of the living room function back in those times etc..

I'm not sure so much about how I'd go about it, just at the thinking point right now.. Which high frequency driver would be the choice from GPA to go along with the 416-8c driver they make? Also they have some HF horns on the site now, could one of them be a good choice to do an M19? Guess I was thinking passive x-over like the original ...
Dunno, some 'talked the talk' including for some other designs I did, but none that I can remember ATM 'walked the walk' with any of them. Guess 'life' got in the way like it has me for right at a decade now.

Yeah, when I started building speakers, 4-5 ft^3 was a shelf speaker, but the AR was getting some attention by then and stereo was the coming 'thing' along with SS power, so by the mid 60s the ability to trade efficiency for a much smaller bulk and lower retail price without compromising bass response too much became a marketing tool to 'mine' all the 'baby-boomer' college campus/apartment dwellers and the pressure was on to go into a downsizing 'feeding frenzy'.

For GPA, there's only two choices AFAIK, so 902 for most folks and 909 for the folks that like to go ~'live' on occasion.

Since I don't see it at GPA, find some MR994 Mantarays which is a step up from an 811 and is the same depth, so should work with the M19's adjustable XO with minimal change at most.

GM