Quote Originally Posted by spiros54 View Post
Hi,

Thanks to both of you for your responses.

One of my friends in Stockholm has an old, smashed VOTT enclosure. He sent me a wood sample where you can actually see different types of wood in the layers (I can upload a pic later). This was from one big theater in Stockholm. I believe it is 19mm thick. But if there really was a lot of variation, then we won't worry so much about replicating it beyond the birch layer. We thought perhaps that Altec choose this wood for its acoustic characteristics... but if we are wrong, then it's easier for us

Thanks,

Spiros

No guarantee that is a factory cabinet. In fact likely not. Many local contractors built their own. Can you imagine the cost of shipping a plywood box from California to Sweden? The factory would cheerfully sell you VOTT decals in the old days. We built dozens and badged them as VOTTs.

A plywood REAL Altec box would certainly be .75 or .625 inch, not 19mm. Almost certain that was locally built.

See added line to my first post.