Quote Originally Posted by Todd W. White View Post
Preceding THX by at least 10 years, the A10 and related systems were the brainchildren of my friend John K. Hilliard's - he had the idea of improving the VOTT and, seeing the size of the houses getting smaller, came up with the A8 and especially the A10 (as seen above) as a higher-performance system that was a major improvement over the standard A4-type system, which he also designed. The Altec "brass" didn't see the need for it, and it didn't go anywhere. If they HAD, Sparkomatic wouldn't own the Altec name today....IMO
I can only imagine what Altec would be like today if they were still around.

Model 25,30, The Model 50 !!