Only had to give up one testicle for that one. Current ebay price is three testicles.
FANTASTIC. If only we could find a discarded jar of testicles on the curb...
This meant a lot to me because it proves that some of us still understand old-school fellowship and cooperation.
That's the way it should be among The Brotherhood of Altec Users.
Can I get an AMEN Brother!
I'm really excited about this because I used the 8" 755A and 12" 728B a lot but never heard the 10" before. 756s were always hard to find relative to the 8' and 12" versions. The 755A goes a lot higher and almost as low in a smaller cabinet and is more satisfying in a single driver music installation, so the WE 10" is a bit of a white elephant.
Does the compliance of the 756 allow for a sealed box? Or is it really only good in a vented?
So at the end of a long road, last night I sat in a kitchen chair 10 feet out and listened to mono with a 10" and one DIY Peerless A100A amp for a few hours, drinking a few cold IPAs. Dock Boggs banjo, Little Esther Phillips. Man, I was in ALTEC Heaven.
I'm enjoying a Sam Adams Latitude 48 as I type these words and listening to the Nat King Cole After Midnight disc on my big ol' 416/808 set up right now. I get it, bro...I get it...
Does the compliance of the 756 allow for a sealed box? Or is it really only good in a vented?
I never saw any of the WE 700 series speakers or Altec descendants in a factory vented box from either WE or Altec, except for the 756B in the Melodist 700A.
Actually my 618 has a small hole that looks like a hand hold...not sure what they were doing with that. Looks small for a port, too big to call it a well-sealed cabinet...
WECo recommended sealed slant front enclosures, as pictured below for the 8", 10', and 12". Some of the WE "L" series PM theater systems of the late 40s used one or more 12" with short front horns, but they were still in sealed back cabs.
Qts is high enough to use in an open baffle, which probably came in handy for various ceiling/wall installs.
It is also best, I think, to use them in a sealed box because then you get a good LF boost due to boundary reinforcement. These are wall mount speakers after all. Right up against the wall, the LF fills in and some signal is reproduced well below rated response.
Originally Posted by Geekstar
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