Speaker Porn

[skullguise]

I had recently posted on FB about a visit to an Audio store where I heard a system approaching $500K list price.  A hometown friend pinged me and - among other things - said he has a friend/classmate (Princeton I'd assume) who "runs Oswald Mills Audio."

Maybe you can get a friend-of-friend-of-friend discount 🤣

Edited October 21 by skullguise

[Knuckledragger]

Edited October 21 by Knuckledragger

[Jon L]

I got SO lucky with a local listing.  Altec A7-500, and I added the supertweeter.

 

[mikeymad]

I have to admit, when I first saw this, I was like cool. 'Voice of the Theater" ALs. I didn't catch that they were yours. 

Well done!! 

[Jon L]

Removed the grill which removed a "veil" from midrange 😆 and had to rework the crossover and physical alignment of the supertweeter, but yeah, I'm beginning to think the speaker angle was already a solved issue in the 1950's and 60's..

 

 

[HiWire]

Would swapping out the rolling casters with footers improve the sound too?

[GrindingThud]

A few worthy photos from CAF this weekend…

[philodox]

Gorgeous, love horn speakers.

[Grahame]

No 6th floor activity photos?

[Knuckledragger]

A slightly different kind of speaker porn.  In the early 90s I was prone to spacing out and doodling in class, in stead of doing what I was supposed to be doing.  This pattern explains a lot about ...everything that has followed since.  A month or so ago I was going through some of the myriad of paperwork that made it with me from the mainland.  In it I found a really old school notebook.  Most of it was fantastically uninteresting (I have not cared about the Sumerians for 35 years and counting) but I did find one page that had some amusing doodles on it:

We've got a couple cars, an attempt at a Roland TB-303 Bassline, what might be a Marshall half stack and ...two attempts at one very iconic speaker design.  That's a Legacy Audio Whisper.  I was one of the cool kids, I tell you.