Friend posted this on FB, had to repost here, Altec content.
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Friend posted this on FB, had to repost here, Altec content.
Cheers
I'd wager there is no Altec there.
I might also lose my wager.
But, my WAG is that is a Jim Lansing Signature H-1000 horn, probably a 130 in the bottom.
I should recognize that diamond logo, but my feeble mind cannot make a connection.
"Tru-sonic" appeared in a diamond, did Stephens make anything that looked like that?
No Altec expert here, just figured that it was a very old model.
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Looks like a young model, to me, but she is probably a great grandmother by now.:rolleyes:
No expert here either SD.Quote:
Originally Posted by SD-50
However, it occurs to me that the small format multicells made by Lansing and Stephens are more readily/easily mounted thru a baffle opening than the Altec 808.
Then we have that diamond shaped logo on the cabinet.:confused:
I think it's a Stephens Tru-sonic, still a blood relative to Altec i suppose.
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I'd back Trusonic. as far as the model. she's prolly dust and bones. Figger that's at least mid 50's or older, she would have to be 80's or 90's. back in those days not many made those numbers.
@Bowtie, after a search of google images I do believe that you are correct in that it is a Stephens.
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IS off topic ? Do you want me to edit the title then guys ? OK I'll edit can always change it back...
It may have these components,dunno.
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Just my .02..................Quote:
Originally Posted by Altec Best
Stephens is "family".
The OP posted because of it's "Altec" like appearance.
It is certainly a "related" topic at the very least.
My vote would be to leave it based on the heritage and Stephens' direct connection to Altec.
We should try to identify the rest of the gear in those racks. Maybe there's some ERPI, WE, or even Altec gear there.
Maybe those little corner wedges have 755's in them.;)
I'm only talking about the title not the thread B.. :wink2:
OG I think this is the driver you posted.. What a cool tweeter with a miniature multicellular horn.Looks like galvanized sheet metal..
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AB, it actually looks like "spotted metal" which is used to make organ pipes. It's composition varies a lot by vintage and manufacturer.Quote:
Looks like galvanized sheet metal..
Galvanize processes usually leave a crystalline surface structure.
I think your right now that I look at it closer.. Are you always usually this well informed B ? :Big smile:
Naaaaaaaaaaa, i just happen to know a little about pipe organs, and a bit more about metal. Spotted metal is not an unfamiliar sight for me, even though it can have a variety of appearances.Quote:
Originally Posted by Altec Best
While we're discussing it, it occurs to me that the spotted metal would have some useful damping properties for HF horns. As far as metals go, it's pretty soft and dense usually being a mixture of tin and lead, but can be found with a variety of other metals also mixed in.
Now for the real kicker, as i look closer i'm starting to doubt spotted metal and actually think it's a form of hammertone paint.
It looks like some chipping on the edges, i just wouldn't dare testify to it either way.
That was my initial thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by bowtie427ss
Yes it is definitely some kind of coating (paint/rustproofing) as it is flaking off in spots.And looks like it is rusting in some of those spots now.
i'd love to know if that coating is available today, it mimics spotted metal perfectly. It's unlike the "hammered metal" paints available today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Altec Best
FWIW You can't get much of anything today,that was manufactured yesterday/yesteryear.... Today everything is manufactured as cheaply as possible... End result, things last weeks instead of years/decades...All this IMHO of course !Quote:
Originally Posted by bowtie427ss
Don't forget the EPA/Greenies!Quote:
Originally Posted by Altec Best
Yup... We used to have insecticides that actually worked..Since the EPA got involved now they make stuff that doesn't kill anything..
Including birds, bees and pets. ;)
Case in point.. Look at the Bed bug problem in NYC and in a lot of the Big cities.. They were all but eradicated in the 70's & 80's until the EPA started banning most of the effective ones.. But that is another story..
2 items: a web search should find hammertone paint.
Bedbugs are more likely to be the result of increased air traffic from places where they have always been a problem to well... here ...where they haven't been a problem in generations. Combine that with the fact that the EPA is doing what it does best, well you know the rest.
America tends to not react, then over-react. Right now we are over reacting to what was, let's face it, the wild west attitude of corporate America with a bumbling bureaucratic juggernaut. In the 70's insecticides were routinely sprayed on workers while in the fields....
here's a nice ad....
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And an editorial-
"The blithe willingness to sprinkle DDT on everything from the barley to the baby, celebrated so colorfully in this advertisement, led in just a few years to widespread insecticide resistance among malaria-carrying mosquitoes. In Sri Lanka, Gordon Harrison observed[2] that
Anopheles culifacies, completely susceptible to DDT when the spray stopped in 1964 was now [in 1968] found resistant presumably because of the use of DDT for crop protection in the interim. Within a couple of years, so many culifacies survived that despite the spraying malaria spread in 1975 to more than 400,000 people.
This pattern was repeated in many places. If governments had paid more attention to Rachel Carson in the 1960s, this weapon against malaria might have retained its potency. "
We need more regulation than was in place, and less than we have now. Story of how things happen in the US.
But you know, not sure I miss the days when ads had to carry disclaimers like this...
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