I was pretty blown away when he said he was going to just trash the 816s. He said they were very old and heavy and not to hurt myself loading them on my truck. I've picked up a few Altec pieces just like that - poking around at churches, or garage sales, or auditoriums. Most of the good things I got off ebay about 10 years ago...I got very interested in Altec gear back then and just snatched up a few auctions. Really wish I had purchased more then, since the prices have shot up so much!!

Anyway, the garage setup is pretty crappy right now. I hung the horns up in the corners, but the bass horns are sitting on the floor, stacked on each other. I need to find a way to separate the 816s and get them close to the corners, but it will be very hard to do since they're so large. Those 416s are some really wide-range speakers! So the sound is pretty mushed up right now. Plus those dividing networks need to be re-capped at a minimum, and I'm not too sure about running the 16 ohm loads in combination with the 8 ohm loads; it's probably not a good idea, especially as old as the XO networks are...

-Mike