Hello everybody in this great forum!
My name is Joerg, i am living in germany. And: I spent my first days with that great american altec sound!
A couple of weeks ago, I got this: 3 bass-enclosures with Altec 3156 bass woofers, 2 299-8a drivers with 564 Mantaray-horns and 1285 crossovers. The local movie-theatre had them stocked, but no use for them in the digital world, with less and less people willing to leave their homes for watching movies.
So the speakers found a new home! Right now they are playing the Hi-Lo's in a cold bavarian night. Next: Ray Charles.
If everthing works out find there will be a photo atached to this post: this is the enclosure, build for cinema use.
And will Ray is playing the piano very nicely, i am asking myself: can i do something, to make them speakers even better. I am new to the Altec-World, so i ask the experts here:
- enclosure: good, bad, strange?
- if bad, what would be better?
- should i replace the caps in the crossovers?
- should i sell the woofers and buy a different Altec-modell?
- what woofer?
- but what will be the result?
- should i built some kind of frame for the horns?
- should i replace the horns?
- why is my english so bad?
lots of questions, I know. It would be really great if someone can help me, as the speakers seem to be great but just the beginning....
thanks again for this great place!
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