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Guido
10-17-2003, 04:41 PM
Have you seen this speaker?

Anybody knows it? I just found it by coincident.

Looks at least interesting;)
Guido
10-17-2003, 04:42 PM
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Rex Mills
10-18-2003, 07:13 PM
When Sparkomatic, up to that point a car audio manufacturer, bought the right to use the Altec name to use on consumer audio products, they made the Bias as a "statement" product. Looked pretty advanced for it's time, which was early 70's, but I would be willing to bet they never sold more than a few pairs
GordonW
10-18-2003, 09:10 PM
Actually, the Bias was sold from about 1987 to about 1991, IIRC. I was selling and installing Altec-Lansing car audio gear at that time (still have an ALA270 car amp, D*** impressive amp!), and those also had the same woven-fiber cones. The stuff had great transient response, and was generally built pretty well...

Too bad Altec-o-matic degenerated to only building dinky computer speakers, soon thereafter...

Regards,
Gordon.