Something different -- anyone ever seen/heard a pair of these? Styled after A7 cabs? Seller also has 511B and 811B horns to go with them (available separately).....
ALTEC A7 Style A-7 VoTT VoT speakers Voice Theater horns bare, no drivers | eBay
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Something different -- anyone ever seen/heard a pair of these? Styled after A7 cabs? Seller also has 511B and 811B horns to go with them (available separately).....
ALTEC A7 Style A-7 VoTT VoT speakers Voice Theater horns bare, no drivers | eBay
"Styled after" only if you use imagination, they are nothing like A7's. To put it another way, outside of material, horn throat, flare rate, and cabinet size, they are just like A7's.
The seller originally called them "copies' after a conversation he changed it to "style'.
"Would you be copasetic with "style" rather than "copies" ? I'd have no issue with changing the title.
- phataural"
FWIW the fiberglass flares could be start of a nice project...
"Now before all the die hard ALTEC nuts freakout"...Oh No He Dint!!!!! >: (
Any idea who's mold those came from OG?
They sorta look like Heil. But, not enough to say "they look like Heil".
I agree--other than the fact that they use a bass horn design, they are really different than A7's--different size, shape, port size, etc. etc. etc. That's why in my first post of this thread, I questioned (question marked) his statement "Styled after A7 cabs?" Interesting that they caught your eyes as well and that you already conversed with him as he originally had the gall to call them A7 copies!Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Guy
Haven't seen anything like that elsewhere Bowtie. decent chance an original design...
He mentions DB Sound, such an original name should be easy to trace.:p
OTOH Google found this....
Volume dB Sound Meter - Android
http://cdn3.staztic.com/screenshots/...meter-18-1.jpg
I get this vibe of Eletro-Voice or Bob Heil to me. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by bowtie427ss
http://a3.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/i...cf3cd5f5/l.jpg
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Originally Posted by Altec Best
Actually the eBay ones pre-date either by a couple years. As I have mentioned, there were literally HUNDREDS of small manufacturers in the 70's. Most did not survive Reaganomics.
First black/white cosmetics I saw was a fellow from Oregon building Shearer horns...we masochists of the time toured them. He did the outside in black epoxy and the inside of the horn in white tolex. My touring ones were basic black.
Could they be Sunn's maybe ?
The big, white Sunn horns i've had were vinyl/tolex covered plywood.Quote:
Originally Posted by Altec Best
Odd thing is, i feel like i've seen these before. Obviously, my adventurous youth, and marital stress may have claimed a few brain cells that would come in handy at these moments.
No. I was a Sunn dealer and EV dealer and knew Bob Heil. None of the above are correct, they are likely just what I said, the work of a small dead manufacturer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Altec Best
http://www.hostboard.com/forums/hbmc...2012/04/26.jpg
Which of those guys in the above picture is you Old Guy? :)
:DI was much more dapper in my day.