Hello Altec Users!

First post here. I came across your forum while searching for info on the Altec 32343 speaker cross-over.

Some time ago, I purchase from a friend a set of home-built PA speakers. Loaded with a 12 inch JBL woofer and plastic rectangular horn. I never used them until recently when I hooked them up to a small stereo system in my workshop. They are a compact speaker, dimensionally resembling something like the 9849, but with a full 1 inch vent gap across the bottom of the entire baffle board. They use the 32343 Network Divider with the HF compensation and 1/4" phone plug input.

They sounded just "ok." Nothing great. One of them sounded a bit different than the other, and the compensation resistors seemed like they were both dirty, needing some cleaning. So I pulled out the 32343 boxes and noticed that one of the caps in one unit was leaking and the same cap in the other unit was completely blown! There was paper everywhere. And I could see that someone had done some messing around in there... bad soldering. I figured that I would just buy some quality caps and go through both units. But then it occurred to me that maybe whoever was in there may have changed something, and I was hoping to get a good schematic to verify that things are right and to get the cap values. Does anybody here have that schematic? Also, thought I would ask if you guys have a preferred type/brand of cap to use in these?

I will post some pics of one of the units tomorrow night.

Thanks in advance,

Allen