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Wojtek wrote:

with your opinions. Your hateful criticue of 802 driver goes against your own recommendation of finding apropriate solution (horn and application ) for chosen driver . To me 811 is a bad, raspy sounding horn ,but quite perfect for reproduction of electric guitar tracks. I understand your sentiment toward Altec 19 apperance in your fireplace room but it would be probably easier and simpler to build Cetla from the ground up from the proceedings you get selling Altec 19. Since you exclusively listen to classical music and altec users exlusively are non classicaly oriented (at least I never met any) there is no point of proving anything. Hovever it would be of great value to people looking for sensible HE speaker less imposing and complicated than Macondo if you proceed with CETLA project  I think. That if you're in sort of humanitarian, sentimental mood and want to help out bottom feeders .Whatever happened to your MiniME project? Is it worse than Altec 19 that you have to aggravate yourself with altec dreck?

Wojtek,

Of cause I would not agree with inconsistency as you need to view my comments from a proper perspective. The Altec 19 is not my main playback and I have absolutely no objectives to have second respectfully playing installation. In fact to make it “respectfully playing” would take much more efforts then I am willing to spend. My currant approach in audio allows to me to be involved in any audio project where I do not need more tools then a screwdriver. That is literally the measurement of the efforts that I am willing to invest. The people who use Altec with 802 as their own playback and particularly who are wiling to play classical repertoire (as you very accurately noted) would need much more then screwdriver efforts and it is not what I do nowadays, without somebody pays me $50K… :-)

The “proper perspective” that I mentioned is the ultimate objective that I have for my Altec 19. The recent resurrection of my interest to Altec or Cetla coming from the fact that my local audio friends temporary furnished me with components that converted my fireplace room into Opera Room:

http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=14568

So, the Altec, or Cetla or whatever need to be good enough to play video – very limited and very restricted set of audio requirements.  My experiment with substitute the 802 with S2 was just a band-aid to eliminate some announce from Altec MF, the announce that does not exhibit itself what I play video, so it is very possible that for video I will use even the stock Altec 19 as the requirement is very low in there. I will observe that subject further but most likely in my Opera Room thread.

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