Magnificent Plans

[les winter]

Anybody have plans for the Magnificents?
I'm building A-7's. Roger113 sent me two pairs of horn flairs he got from the Magnificents. Thank you Roger. They differ a bit from the ones for the A-7's. I think there is a filler in the Magnificents that goes from the flair to the cabinet front. A drawing would be of help.
thanks.
les

[GM]

Interesting! Just looking at pictures it's a skinned A7, which is what I'd do: altec magnificent a7 - Google Search

GM

[les winter]

Thank you GM. But not exactly. The Magnificent flares terminate, on the outside, in a flat plate. They do not continue to the edge. You can see this, kind of, here:

altec magnificent a7 - Google Search

The width of the termination is 2-1/4".

You can see this in Roger's pictures here:

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They are a bit shorter than the flares on the A-7. I think the solution is to make a solid filler that continues the flare from the flat termination forward to the front edge of the cabinet sides. That would produce the A-7 flare length while maintaining the 8" opening at the narrow end of the horn.

[les winter]

Further news: Roger advises that the Magnificent's that sourced the flares were 20.75" deep.

[GM]

Interesting! I thought/assumed the A7-500W-II Magnificent variant was basically the same as the original except for driver/XO components, which are skinned A7-500: http://www.lansingheritage.org/image...ome/page17.jpg

Amazing that Altec would bother to do all that to make them a few inches less deep, so guessing it was more about weight reduction, which begs the question; when were Roger's made? Prior to ~ 1974, size, weight in the consumer premium lines of 'anything' wasn't much of a buying factor.

GM

[Elitopus1]

Wow, I also didn't realize the Magnificent is different than a regular 828 cab.