Head hanging in sorrow....

[cbooch]

Don't these look like a nice pair of Valencia speakers?




Thats what i thought too....i won these on an online estate auction last week.maybe some of you saw them too..the auction company only posted a pic of the front.and were not able to take more pics (i know i know.my fault and paid dearly ..but lurking on these damn forums has created an altec addiction)...anyway..went to pick them up(almost 5 hours each way)
When i got there looking at the back of the cabs concerned me..there was no crossover ever installed on the cab....just a washer and a screw covering a small hole where the knob would be.but it looked factory...My wife was with me i dont dare say anything to her....i didnt want to be sick and have an argument at the same time..it was hard enough trying to justify the purchase...lol
so i get these babies home,get them in the garage ,take the back off and .....well..have been drinking ever since....it was a gamble and i lost....

[just me now]

not altec for sure, but seems the drivers may be OK in use, from some light reading.....

EV PRO-12B Vintage Coaxial Speakers for cheap - diyAudio

here's a thread with that Galante xover schematic mentioned in the first link...
Help with design for EV Pro-12B Coax - diyAudio

[bowtie427ss]

You need to check your local and state laws, you may or may not have some legal recourse.

I wish i could say nothing like that has ever happened to me, but it'd be a lie. Another bright note to consider is this lesson won't soon be forgotten and likely won't ever happen again in your future.

Now, if you want to look on the bright side, you have a basically clean slate to start with and could have an end result that's a cut above the 846A.

[cbooch]

They were not listed as Altecs....they were listed as "Mid Century Modern"..Im pretty much stuck with them..Ive been on the hunt for a clean pair of these...It doesnt look like the baffle has been changed and there is no cut out for the horn....So I am trying to convince myself that Ev somehow bought up all the old stock empty Valencia cabs and sold them at Sears.........lol....Thanks to all of you by the way for all the info I've learned about Altec on this forum....I'm new to audio equipment but old in guitars and amps,its a new hobby for me....I remember when the music stores were loaded with A7's and they couldnt give them away...
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[bowtie427ss]

Are they full valencia dimensions?

I've seen cabinets like those before that had housed 604E's since new. It's been a long time, but i thought they were a bit smaller than valencia cabinets, maybe not.

Anywho, just find you a deal on a pair of 604's and you'll be whole again.

[cbooch]

The cabs are 30' high 25 1/2" wide and 18" deep..They are smaller...damn..

[VolvoHeretic]

Come on, I won't rub it in, but how much did you waste?

[Altec Best]

In the future insist on Pictures inside and out. But as others have noted you can grab a pair of 604's to put in there.As GM also noted the EV driver has a baffle plug.Which originally probably had a 15" speaker in there. The cabs look pretty clean though.

Put down the drink and get to work on finding a nice pair of 604's.Or you can swap out the baffle and install a 416 -811 horn and driver.You can find good deals on Craigslist.eBay prices are going through the roof.IMO you can get brand new drivers from Bill cheaper than original Altecs these days from that auction site....

All The Best !

[cbooch]

In the future insist on Pictures inside and out. But as others have noted you can grab a pair of 604's to put in there.As GM also noted the EV driver has a baffle plug.Which originally probably had a 15" speaker in there. The cabs look pretty clean though.

Put down the drink and get to work on finding a nice pair of 604's.Or you can swap out the baffle and install a 416 -811 horn and driver.You can find good deals on Craigslist.eBay prices are going through the roof.IMO you can get brand new drivers from Bill cheaper than original Altecs these days from that auction site....

All The Best !

I normally would request more pics but the auction was starting about an hour after i discovered them.by the time i registered on the site the auction was rolling.It wasn't an Ebay auction. I've been getting some really great deals on some of these estate auction sites.the only problem is that most of there search features are awfull and 9 out of 10 times the items are listed incorrectly...for instance about three months back i won a mc60 listed as "Electric Brain Unit and box of wire"
32 bucks and it was mine.....I know that will never happen again but it makes things like this not so bad.....

[Audio_by_Goodwill]

...for instance about three months back i won a mc60 listed as "Electric Brain Unit and box of wire"

What's a MC60?