You give me too much credit, but thank you. For me it's(Altec) passion driven, and having a photographic memory doesn't hurt.Originally Posted by Alien_Shore
I owe a great deal of my knowledge to this board, and at least a couple handfuls of folks just like those who make up this little community, some fairly local, some half a world away, and sadly some who are no longer with us.
Not all vegetables make good leaders.
US$10,099 and they could have been yours.....
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Moments like this where I wish still had the 26 755A's pulled from a downtown hotel that was demolished in Columbus back in the late 70's.
Your neighbors called. They like your music.
I try to sort through the 755A variants here:
Junkyard Jukebox: WE/Altec 755A: You pays your money and takes your choice
The KS spec label on that silver gray hammertone Altec produced 755 signifies something like "8 inch speaker with xxx frequency response." Any speaker that meets the spec would qualify. That same number is used on 755Cs for the Bell System. I have also seen Jensens with a KS decal in the past and I'm wondering if that is the same KS number as well.
Those WE wall cabs are beautiful but a total waste of what is one of the best full range speakers ever produced.
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As forMy junky 1998 Volvo is a faithful reproduction of a 2012 BMW 750 except that it is not a BMW and it is not a 2012. Both have four wheels so they are pretty close though.755 EX driver is a faithful reproduction of the 755a in every way but two: Its nominal impedance is 8 instead of 4 ohms, and, instead of a permanent magnet, the Line Magnetic 755 EX uses a field coil
How can a field coil unit be a faithful reproduction of an AlNiCo driver?
The 755A has a very flat impedance curve, thanks to low vc inductance I think...I'd need to see the 755EX curves to know how they compare.
I'll be putting up a selection of 755A sweeps soon.
Also, the cone paper in the original 755A was dual thickness very rigid stuff. Later 755 A and C/Es were slightly different, not as stiff. Several attempts were made to reproduce the original recipe in Japan and they failed.
The Chinese speaker looks like a cool unit but it has nothing to do with the original 755A
Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent --Wittgenstein
Very much looking forward to seeing that!
- Mike
We've discussed odd Altec variants...so made me chuckle to read-"Some silver Altecs have the old style decal pictured above
on the gray wrinkle unit. It seems Altec never threw anything away.... "
Your neighbors called. They like your music.
I was thinking of those same discussions when I wrote that!
I have seen a lot of variants in old ALTEC but a new one would never surprise me. Particularly on the internal OEM stuff, sometimes it seems like they were trying to clear out the warehouse.
Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent --Wittgenstein
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