Hello hope everybody is well tonight. My name is Steve I live in Southern New Jersey. I've been in Altec admirer for some time now and I've never bought a pair , while flipping through a million pairs of speakers. I finally gave up and purchased a pair of model 15. They needed Total Restoration, sanding, veneer repair, New L pads, soldering crossovers having woofers rebuilt at GPA, gluing phase plugs, building stands adding some heavy duty binding post and I also made a pair of pretty cheesy covers which I'll never use just wanted to try it.
Today I just picked up a pair of A7. I got them for a song the cabinets are pretty much shot they actually nailed cheap plywood to the sides painted it black. There is some original wood under there so I'm going to try and carefully strip off the plywood and see if there's anything left but I highly doubt it. They came with beautiful nearly perfect 511b's. They also came with 808- 8A drivers, just ordered a new diaphragm for one of them. Also a pair of n801-8a crossovers which look to be in pretty good condition. They also came with a near-mint pair of JBL d130 drivers these are really nice except for a couple dents in the dust caps. I'm thinking of selling JBL and buying 416-8a just to have all Altec stuff. I just measured my friends Valencia because I'm looking to make a cabinet where I can put the horn on top of the cabinet and I figured the Valencia's without the top part would be perfect. But if anybody has a link to a better set-up where I could use the 15 inch drivers and put the horn on top of the cabinets I would really appreciate it. I searched around but couldn't find a whole lot.
Just wanted you guys to know my brief Altec history. I'm not a speaker guy comparable to many of you, but if I can take it apart I can put it back together, and I can do some woodwork.
Thanks so much for having me on this great and very informative forum. I'll leave you a couple pics please don't make fun of my cheesy covers it was my first attempt. Lol
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