If you had the guts for M-19's

**Cal Weldon** · November 20th, 2012, 09:59 PM

Forgot to mention, my babies came home from the hospital today. All nice and shiny. New dust caps, new goop, don't they look beautiful? Sorry for the poor pic.

**voice of the theater** · November 21st, 2012, 09:53 AM

Originally Posted by Cal Weldon

Forgot to mention, my babies came home from the hospital today. All nice and shiny. New dust caps, new goop, don't they look beautiful? Sorry for the poor pic.

Where did you send them--GPA? They look great! (lightened up your photo with photoshop)

**Cal Weldon** · November 21st, 2012, 11:06 AM

Wow, under that light they look horrible! Where's all that crap coming from on the surrounds? How come the cones aren't black?

Thanks VOTT. They were done here in town at Vancouver Audio Speaker Clinic. The cones remained original. I asked them to pull the dust caps, clean the gaps the best they could [yes, I know], realign one of the coils, clean the surrounds and add some new goop. Once home I gave them some TLC to tidy them up a bit.

**voice of the theater** · November 21st, 2012, 12:19 PM

Originally Posted by Cal Weldon

Wow, under that light they look horrible! Where's all that crap coming from on the surrounds? How come the cones aren't black?

Thanks VOTT. They were done here in town at Vancouver Audio Speaker Clinic. The cones remained original. I asked them to pull the dust caps, clean the gaps the best they could [yes, I know], realign one of the coils, clean the surrounds and add some new goop. Once home I gave them some TLC to tidy them up a bit.

Glad to hear you were able to keep the original cones--looks like they did some nice work on the "spruce up". The only place I would trust for a full re-cone for my vintage Altecs (if they ever need it) is GPA. BTW, maybe I lightened your photo too much! Is this better?

**bowtie427ss** · November 21st, 2012, 01:56 PM

The only place I would trust for a full re-cone for my vintage Altecs (if they ever need it) is GPA.

I know a couple fellas "in the business" in that corner of the world, Vancouver Audio is a long and well trusted speaker repair center. They likely source their Altec related parts from GPA, or from the same source GPA does depending on the part, and their work is absolutely on par with GPA's. I've owned some of their work in the past, and if i lived west of the Rockies they'd pretty much be my exclusive speaker repair folks. East of the Rockies GPA is a no-brainer for Altec and Gauss rebuilds, even used to be able to talk them into some Emilar cone repairs a few years back.

**Cal Weldon** · November 21st, 2012, 06:52 PM

vott: That second pic is spot on. Thanks very much.

bowtie: glad to hear you like them. Even after David Lee passed away a year ago [or so] and they closed shop, the rest of the gang recruited the original owner Tom to start it back up again. They've always been good to me and yes I believe you are right about their quality and them sourcing the right parts.