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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Altec Model 19 in Boston.
Post Subject: A different type of DIY efforts.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/21/2011
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 Romy the Cat wrote:
Yesterday I was working for a half day at the part of the house were my Altec 19 are sitting and just to keep myself entertained I set up the Altec 19 to play from my add-hog playback: Sony $30 DVD player, Yamaha C2A preamplifier and Yamaha B-2 power amp, all connected with those horrible Radio Shack interconnects. It was not good sound, not that I was looking for any kind of Sound. However, again and again I have noticed the amassing quality of the Altec 19’s bass driver – it just never stops to up in dynamic. As I told many times before this characteristic to demonstrate absolute lack of compression in bass at high volume is the ONLY one worthy quality of this entire speaker. It is not the bass is good, it is very bad in fact – the typical ported crap but the way this bas climbing up in dynamic range is truly remarkable and VERY infrequent commodity that one very seldom can get even from a good horn.
As I cleared up my fireplace room I kind of more and more like it. I did not use it since I moved in this house. I burned logs in the fireplace during the winter and store my unsorted LPs in there but it was pretty much all use that I get from this room. Now I kind of begin to like it more.

With my growth of the fireplace room appreciation I more and more think to start my Cetla 91 project, as sonically I feel the room has surprisingly good potential (a pair of Altec 19 is the only thing the room is furnished with). However I kind of straggling with myself and the some DIY efforts that it will take. I would like to see the project progressed. I have absolutely clear ideas what I would like to perform to convert Altec 19 to Cetla 91. I have all sensory tools to do the rebuild, including the heavy machinery tools in the basement. I have the know-how for everything I need, I know how evaluate the results and how administer the progress in case negative results. However, I absolutely have no desire to do it myself.

Honestly, I do not have any pleasure to do heavy DIY labor and I very much would like somebody to do it for me. It would be so great if I have some local handy audio guy in next town who has his own Altec 19 and who would like to take it further, in fact MUCH further. Then I would give to him my basement with all building and audio tools, all my know-how and my fireplace room and would let him to work on my and his speaker. On my side I would guaranty the final result and would even insignificantly pay to him for his labor. That would so great, but where to find an obedient and non-deaf audio enthusiast….
I know I have been bitching about it and in the end I will unfortunately be doing the “dirty work” myself but I so much do not want. An option is to get married and to have a freaking son. Ehhh, it would not be insignificant pay in the end and he will grow up too slow… Sucks!

The caT

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