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As I have finished remodeling my new Opera room:

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…I modified my Altec 19. The one ordinal that I had was truly phenomenal item. I went to recue what was done in there I was very impressed. The former owner from Florida has reportedly died already but the way how he kept the speaker was truly exemplary.  Everything inside is original and new as it was produced just last week. The new external foam, the new grills, the drivers as they were made just last night. Wonderful! I rotated the bass drivers (a good for suspension sagging) and realized the he put a very thick layer of leather (½ inch) between the bass driver and enclosure. I got rid of the MF driver, put my 18-cell with S2 driver in place driving it from the very same Altec 19 crossover, effectively converting the Altec 19 to Altec 21S. The sound of CD was very nice if I hear it from another room.

Then I decided that I am too expressed and too sophisticated and that I can do much better then the 35 years old stupid crossover. So, I made two second order 500Hz crossovers for 416 driver and S2 with metal cone. As I connected my new Altec 21S with my own crossovers, with use the original one  the sound turn out to be so disgusting that it shocked my “sophistication” to its core. I can not even begin to describe how bad it was and I am very glad that no one witnessed that shame. In the best it sounded like I just eaten a kilogram of rusty nails and then drunk a gallon of Muriatic acid. If somebody tried to apply Muriatic  acid to metal then you know it feels (smells). I was sitting in front of the speakers and was thinking what the fucking idiot I am. I literally was about to vomit not only because the Sound but also because I did it with my own hands (mind).

Well, the result I got, perhaps need to have further working and I am sure that if I go all the way to the bottom of it then I would find a useful combination, but I was poisoned by me “engineering” that I trashed my own crossover, put back the original Altec and said to myself: “You Moron, do not fucking touch it anymore.”  The only thing that comforts me in that whole story is that the narratives of my big “design adventure” is my secret and no one knows about it.

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