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If you needed a cheap pair of boxes this guy wants 100 each with 421's
Use the 421's till you find better or off 'em on FeePay to get your 100 back.
I am assuming he means 2 of the not right 816's and 5 A7's.
Altec 421-8H 15" speakers
http://images.craigslist.org/5Ge5Md5...ec24651cf7.jpg
Yikes those look rough! But the price is sure right enough.
Agreed Pano. Pretty, they are not!
Eventually, good working 421's are gonna come into short supply.
With a little elbow grease they could be money makers quite easily if you pack them with more desirable drivers.Very easily recoup the C-note.
You're killing me! Got nowhere to put them at the moment. Maybe Analog Addict should grab them. They are closer to his neck of the woods.
Heh, when it rains it pours. I might be interested in them, but I just the other day agreed to a pair of A7 cabinets delivered to the mancave for $50. One is black and one is grey, but my buddy HomerJSimpson from AK is throwing in the can of grey paint too. Then I'm closing out another deal on AK for a $300 set of 416-8A's and a set of $50 N501-8As.
Anyone see a pattern here?.... :D
Not only a pattern, but a full cave. :cool:
Ah yeah I do ! Sounds so familiar to me,but I try not to think about that.My thoughts are to find more space to put them,while nobody's looking ! :biggrin2: :cool2:Quote:
Originally Posted by analog addict
Here we go again...
http://www.hostboard.com/forums/hbmc...2012/01/24.jpg
Got a nice little bonus with them....
http://www.hostboard.com/forums/hbmc...2012/01/25.jpg
Yes, you are a speaker addict. :D
Wait,wait I still see some room up to the ceiling yet ! :wink2: :biggrin2:
Amongst other things. Unfortunately as a married man, some of my favorite indulgences are in short supply....Ahem...Quote:
Originally Posted by Panomaniac
Anyway, I was thinking about setting up some sort of A7 combo and then taking them over to Dennis Had's shop and letting him listen to them for awhile. I'm sure he would decide that they could sound better, and then he would start tinkering with the crossover, and before you know it, us Altecheads would have a new and improved crossover to play with.
The plan is to fill the imperfections, sand and paint them, and then apply some of these repro VOTT decals a kindly source gifted to me. Then the question becomes what to load them with.
Assuming I can get the 416-8A's, it would be either those, or my spare pair of original 515's. I'd most likely add a 908-8A/511 combo for the midrange, and even have a set of EV "baby buttcheeks" for the high end.
Comments?
Hmm that sounds familiar,there must be a lot of that going around these days ! :smile2:Quote:
Originally Posted by analog addict
Hard to say on the 416 vs 515. Both have their good points. Someone here will have an informed opinion, I'm sure!
511s or 811s. I prefer the 811s for closer lsitening. If you don't have a pair, I do. Reworking the port is important, as well as adding bracing.
I don't think much of the orignal crossover, but I'm sure that Dennis could come up with something nice.
Yup.Quote:
Originally Posted by Panomaniac
IMHO the 416 goes lower, and I just plain like it better. The 515 generically is slightly louder, but not as deep. Either will require subs if you wanna go WAY low. Which would make how deep they go somewhat moot.
MY fave? The "B version of the 416 with stepped mag.
http://img.ps2netdrivers.net/img/33/...aker/small.jpg
Does the 515 have a better top end? For example making it easier to cross up high.
Have never run either past 1200, both do that just fine.
Hazarding a guess, the 515 cone DOES seem lighter, so maybe will go higher. Problem with either will be beaming, a 15's pattern narrows at higher freqs. So any large speaker is gonna sound like it has more highs ON AXIS than it really does. Off axis not so good.
My 515-8G's are topping out @ ~6k by ear, in recent manual frequency tests, entirely overlapping the 288, using my 800hz franken-XO based around the EV XEQ-808.Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Guy
http://archives.telex.com/archives/E...-808%20EDS.pdf (LF = 12db/octave, if that's still the case with my mods)
* I should repeat the tests with the MF/HF disconnected to be sure, and observe off-axis in more detail.
This was one reason I'd like to try 416's.
That said, the MF is one thing I'm not particularly monkeying with atm.