808-B is identical to 802G except for fram.
Pair of Altec 808-8B Compression Drivers & 32C Sectoral Horms | eBay
Not mine. looks to me to be 802G drivers not Bs
808-B is identical to 802G except for fram.
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Thanks OG. I wont make that mistake again!
NP-just to make the picture complete the 808 is Symbiotik PA use and 802 is aluminum Hi-Fi.
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Looks like the oddball 806 tangerine drivers with the lighweight frams. Same as came in the 9849 monitirs in some cases. I have a pair. you can just make out the part number on the rear cover of one of them.
With a non stock fram, I don't think it's that great of a deal.
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Those are 808/802, at least to my eyes, the 806 has a shorter mag, Spec sheet says 808-B which is prolly where seller got his info.
http://altecpro.com/pdfs/vintage/Spe...r%20System.pdf
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there's something funky about that camera angle or lens, makes the driver "look" short for an 802. The measurement takes all the guessing away however. The assembled 802-8g here on my desk measures just a whisker under 4 inches in length, same as the one in the auction pic. The pic does not give a real sense of the length to diameter aspect which is almost square.Originally Posted by Old Guy
I have that exact setup from 1231 wedges.
The driver is 808-8B in mine. Tangerine 802 bodies with symbiotiks.
Factor in $200 for new diaphragms and it ain't all that cheap-- unless, like me, you wanted to try the plastic 32s.
I need one of those drivers or bodies if any are floating around.
Finally opened up the back of my sort of A8 clones, I can't get the rear cover off of the compression driver without removing the horn as a 2x4 is in the way and I can't get any torque on the screws with a short screw driver. But, the aluminum 32B's are attached to a 3 1/2" total depth machined (I think) driver. The black part measures 3 3/16" and there is a tag that says the diaphram was replace in '05 with an 808 8A diaphram, #26420. If they are symbiotec I like 'em because, I am a bass and treble junkie, and too much midrange is not to my liking. I have a 3" piezo super tweeter (soon to be two) filling out the top end and I need the power handling capacity of the symbiotecs because I have the EQ cranked up all of the way for the bottom and top (can you hook up two EQ's and double the boost?). Any thoughts or comments?
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