Merry Christmas...it's been a while

[Steve Mac]

Life got busy....but I never forgot how much help I received from this forum.
Hope everyone is doing well and building big speakers!

Probably the only think I never shared with the system I built(with lots of help from here)...were the final addition...super-tweeters!
I had some cheap ribbons...but I wanted an all horn system so I saved my pennies and waited until I could add the Fostex tweeters.

I don't really have the acoustics in my house here in Alabama that I had in Indiana...that was a dam near perfect room for audio,
but the next home will be designed around the stereo.

Here's a link with the tweeters in place:
http://www.superbadcat.com/images/stereo/stereo_01.jpg

Merry Christmas to all and thanks for keeping the Altec tradition ALIVE !

[Altec Best]

Thanks Steve for stopping by to say Hello and Merry Christmas ! Hope you and yours have a great Holiday season !

[Art J.]

Merry Christmas...it's been a while ,applies to me also. I look in here time to time and hope everyone is well. Don't have much more to contribute. My 9846's are still cranking after being rebuilt in 2004 with help from here. They got a workout playing all day today with traditional Christmas music like "Kings Collage" with the deep organ passages that shake the house. They never fail to impress. I wish all a happy new year and continue this great board. Thanks, Art

[juniper]

Happy holidays to ALL!!!!!!

[Earl K]

Merry Christmas !

Steve, here are some of your pics ( direct link ) .




And a link to your, "superbadcat" web presence .



PS : I don't know what's up with all these ( unwarranted ) "redirects", now happening here at Hostboard .

[Altec Best]

PS : I don't know what's up with all these ( unwarranted ) "redirects", now happening here at Hostboard .

I'm already on it Earl.. Steven is looking into it now..They just did some more software updates and you know and I know with updates sometimes comes unseen issues.And these re-directs are one of them.

[Steve Mac]

Yeah Steve save your pennies is right ! The T500AMKII which those look like are $1034 each...

Holy cow...I think they were 900 apiece when I bought them...so I feel better? Maybe not....they were quite the dent.
...but finally I found something that could keep up with the rest of the system...and after all of the work that was done I just had to try to finish it right.

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[Steve Mac]

Happy Holidaze and all that jive!

I know all about ?life? getting busy! It?s been going on 15 yrs since my Altec system got zapped and still just huge dust collectors despite the help of various generous folks both here and on other forums.

Oh well, where there?s life, there?s hope, so one more time......'maybe next year'???.

Those are really ?sweet? sounding [super] tweeters to my well abused hears! Way back when, me and a couple of local Altec centric folks experimented with 802s coupled to short super tweeter horns to good effect, but didn?t have any quality consumer units to compare to. I?m guessing though that they would be a distant second to an appropriately sized one for the BW such as the Fostex.

GM

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The one element that vexed me was understanding how to design the sealed chamber for the mid bass horns...I did my internet research...looked through a couple hundred of your posts...realized you had an innate understanding of the physics of what was going on inside and outside....and then I asked for help...and I got more than I bargained for.

So, again thanks for the lesson in theory...it was deeply appreciated.

But, it sure is sad that someone with all this acoustic theory doesn't have his own sound lab working on some boss audio projects. I wish you success in getting your system re-constructed. I realized after my Dad passed away that I was the inheritor of all he had experimented with and learned about audio. And I'm grateful for the inspiration to continue the tradition. That's what I appreciated in this forum as well...a lot of gear heads trying to keep the search for good audio going.

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Earl...it was nice of you to straighten out the image issue...
I'm not sure what is going on...but it didn't do that 5 years ago! ☺️

[Altec Best]

Yeah Steve save your pennies is right ! The T500AMKII which those look like are $1034 each...

[Altec Best]

What are your impressions of those Fostex tweeters ? I never heard them before.