My new Altec 817's

**Barossi** · January 29th, 2007, 01:35 PM

Hi,
where could i find plans for the 817 enclosure?

Kind Regards

Barossi

**Old Guy** · January 29th, 2007, 02:35 PM

http://www.lansingheritage.org/images/altec/plans/1970's-lf-plans/enclosures10.jpg

**rghinton** · January 31st, 2007, 02:49 PM

Plans are here. http://www.altecpro.com/pdfs/vintage...net%20Plan.pdf

**cholt** · January 31st, 2007, 05:56 PM

Reed, your 817s look like the sound of experience! Do you have any pictures of the 3182 subs (8182 cabs?). I have a pair of altec DTS 182s (dual 3184s) that I currently use, and have a bunch of 3182s (NOS and GPA recones with cloth surround) that I want to build some cabinets for. Just curious, the factory cabinet plans are available, but a bit large and unusual geometry for a single sub to say the least. Did you use the 8182 plans or did you modify them?? Thanks for your comments and I look forward to more updates on your current project. Curt

**rghinton** · January 31st, 2007, 07:31 PM

I used the Altec cabinet plans for the 3182's. I did a modification. I did not mount the speaker in the front but on the top. I laid the cabinets down on what would normally be the back so the speaker is facing toward the front. This gives me a cabinet that is about 3' wide, 2' high and 5' deep approx. I have 4 of these cabinets side by side with the three 817's on top. I am sorry that I did not get any pictures of the completed system. I tried but the walls, the cabinets, the horns are all flat black. You can get the idea of what my system looks like by going into a basement without windows on a moonless night and opening your eyes. That is what the picture looked like. Now I have black grill cloth (wall to wall, floor to ceiling) surrounding my perforated theater screen and there is no way to see anything. The subwoofers are attenuated about 9 db compared to the other speakers. Oh---I did repaint the 817's. I wanted everything behind the theater screen to be flat black.

**intotubes** · February 15th, 2007, 11:29 PM

Originally posted by Charles Clark:
subtle hint: This thread is almost 3 years old, he might have built them a couple years ago already!

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">But it looks like the original poster ressurected his own thread with a quote form an earlier post.

**intotubes** · February 15th, 2007, 11:32 PM

Ugh! nevermind, I didn't get to page 2 before I replied

**Altec Best** · October 8th, 2013, 01:44 PM

Resurrected this thread since Reed has them listed for sale on FeeBay ! It's interesting to see the folk's that had posted in this thread.

**bowtie427ss** · October 10th, 2013, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by Altec Best

Resurrected this thread since Reed has them listed for sale on FeeBay ! It's interesting to see the folk's that had posted in this thread.

There's gotta be more than one thread, or some of this one is missing. I KNOW i posted in the thread, and i distinctly remember a pic of Reed standing with the newly finished 817's in his fairly new looking unfinished basement.