Considering a change in direction...

**analog addict** · June 25th, 2015, 09:31 AM

Or maybe a move up the food chain. I've been slowly trying to work out a deal with Bowtie for one or both of his empty 210 cabinets, with an eye toward building A4s to replace my Simplex W stacks. Would this give me a sonic improvement, using the same drivers and horn setup? Woofers are 515s, horns/drivers are 1005b TFs/288B. I'd prolly keep the Frazier tweeter arrays. Of course the M19's sandwiched in between would have to go somewhere else...

**C.DARRELL FREEMAN** · June 25th, 2015, 04:21 PM

hello analog addict,i have two mty 210 cabinets that you can have if you can come and get them in birmingham,alabama.they are in decent condition considering their age.i got them out of a local theater back in the eightys.they were probably installed in the 40's or 50's.no components are installed in them.free to a good home.cdf

**VolvoHeretic** · June 26th, 2015, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by analog addict

I like the miniature baby A7 on the left side of the picture.

GM · June 26th, 2015, 10:10 PM

Well, using 210s vertically didn't work for me due to the HF horns being so far away like yours are now, so guess it's not a problem for you and you'll need wings to 'fill the corners' with rolls of damping to fill the cavities if you don't make them false wall built-ins like I did with A7s. This will give you horns that go about an octave lower, so a good thing and you won't have all the cavity reflections plus M19 cab diffractions to muck up a considerable portion of the BW that you currently have, though there will be the 210's parallel horn wall reflections that I'm glad to be rid of.

GM

**analog addict** · June 30th, 2015, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by GM

Well, using 210s vertically didn't work for me due to the HF horns being so far away like yours are now, so guess it's not a problem for you and you'll need wings to 'fill the corners' with rolls of damping to fill the cavities if you don't make them false wall built-ins like I did with A7s. This will give you horns that go about an octave lower, so a good thing and you won't have all the cavity reflections plus M19 cab diffractions to muck up a considerable portion of the BW that you currently have, though there will be the 210's parallel horn wall reflections that I'm glad to be rid of.

GM

Thank you sir. Adding an extra octave was part of the idea behind the 19's inclusion.

Originally Posted by C.DARRELL FREEMAN

hello analog addict,i have two mty 210 cabinets that you can have if you can come and get them in birmingham,alabama.they are in decent condition considering their age.i got them out of a local theater back in the eightys.they were probably installed in the 40's or 50's.no components are installed in them.free to a good home.cdf

I appreciate the offer, but AL is a bit far for me. You might want to consider posting them on the buy/sell trade sub forum..

And as for the baby A7's they're actually as I bought them, loaded with 604-8Gs, with a small hole cut in the back for the compression driver....

**analog addict** · July 27th, 2015, 04:50 PM

Deja vu.... Round number 2

**Geekstar** · July 28th, 2015, 05:47 PM

I like the miniature baby A7 on the left side of the picture.

I have a nicely constructed pair of "mini-A7" boxes for 12" woofs. Intending to use them with 414s but currently have many speaker projects in the pipe, as it were.

If anybody from the board is interested, pick up in downtown DC or maybe Philly.

JR

**Altec Best** · August 15th, 2015, 01:07 PM

AA is this the cab from Bowtie ?

**analog addict** · August 31st, 2015, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by Altec Best

AA is this the cab from Bowtie ?

Sure is. He has one more which I'm hoping to pick up by the end of next summer. Now I just gotta figger out what to pay him.....

**Altec Best** · September 7th, 2015, 01:44 PM

Originally Posted by analog addict

Sure is. He has one more which I'm hoping to pick up by the end of next summer. Now I just gotta figger out what to pay him.....

That's even better you get them with no price included !

Bowtie - "You Are The Man" !

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Originally Posted by GM

edit: AB, can all the info on his site be added for posterity to the Altec library?

original thread: http://www.hostboard.com/forums/f700...-80-800hz.html

GM I will take a look and if I can I will... I don't think I can add the entire thread but will try to add the important information in it. Basically I only uploaded .pdf's and jpg's and data sheets to the Library.Currently looking into other hosting sites ATM... So I'm not sure if I should do it now or after a move if we move at all.. I have to get together with Todd on this... The most important thing is that we can import a copy of the Altec User Board database to a new server from 12/2002 till now 9/2015. IME we CAN NOT lose all the information in this forum as that would be disastrous for us.. From my chats with Steven IIRC he makes a back up of the database once a week..

Right now I'm using my Dropbox account for the Altec User Board Library..Once we have a new server or move the library to Todds site we will have a much larger storage capacity for the Library.I'll keep you in the loop.