Altec 210 Split

[GEK]

I recently split a 210 cabinet, similar to Mike Frye's article in SP, drivers are a pair of 420A's reconed as 416's by GPA.

I would normally not sacrificed a vintage cabinet, but the original was in poor shape and seriously delaminating. I reused the horn flare and much of the bracing lumber. The rest is some cabinet grade birch plywood.



Some additional pic's are in the link below.

I ended up keeping a small port at the bottom as well as a 4" opening in the rear behind the woofer.

I'm still working on integrating it into the rest of my system but it has very impressive low frequency output and mates well with the A-5's

Split Altec 210 Cabinet

- Gary

[Altec Best]

Thanks for posting Gary, I posted your link in another thread. I don't know why your posts were delayed but they were for some reason otherwise I would have not posted a duplicate.Sorry everyone for any confusion on the duplicate I just saw Gary's Project and thought it deserved some recognition.Very nice job to a Altec Lansing aficionado.

Thank You :thankU: for sharing all the Dynaco links in your site :2thumbsup: JOHN

[Mustang Marvin]

I know this thread is about those 210's, but I can't take my eyes off those horns on the A7's. I'd love to get a pair of those...

[Panomaniac]

Yep, looks like a pair of 1505s. Great sounding horn!

[GEK]

Thanks for all of the kind words.

The A5's are a clone of Hiraga's setup from Sound Practice with 1505B horns (288 drivers) and 828 cabinets with 515's.

About the only failings of the setup are the size, and lack of deep bass. It's been difficult to find an ideal match to augment the deep bass. The 210 split thus far is the best I've found. I'm currently running the A5's "full range" directly off of the linestage. The 210's are running low-pass at 80hz thru a Rane AC-22 crossover (somewhat modified with upgraded op-amps) into a pair of Mcintosh MC60's. The drivers are a pair of Altec 420A's that were reconed by GPA as 416's's.

As you can tell, I'm a bit of an Altec addict, and there are several other altec speakers, mixers and amps in the room.

I would be more active on this site, but sadly it's blocked at my work by the filtering. It also seems to have me listed as a QUAD ESL63 Electrostatic Loudspeaker Member and when I try to get into the signature/profile I get a 505 error.

- Gary Tube Swap Homepage

[Mustang Marvin]

Gary,
Great set up. I'm a Mac and Altec fan myself. I think as Mr H has done, you can achieve more bass with the A5's by reducing the port size. I did this with my A7's and it really works.

The 1505's really look great atop the A5 cabs. I hope to do the same someday.

[Altec Best]

I I get a 505 error.

Hi Gary, Yes alot of us are getting that 500 - Internal Server Error. I can only say that Steven Hostboard Admin. is working on it they are trying to run down this error that seemed to come out of nowhere he said.Probably some kind of Virus,Malware,or Malicious code,they are usually the things that come out of nowhere.But those A-5's I keep drooling over my keyboard.Everytime I see those my lower lip just seems to hang alittle lower. Regards ~ JOHN