Big old horns!

Mike

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Love those old school far-field theater large format systems. The beautiful JBL Paragon always seemed more to my living room size.
 
Big Old Horns produce a Big Old Sound which can not be replicated with modern speakers.
 
Back in 1968 I owned a pair of Altec A7 speakers. I drove them with a pair of McIntosh MC30 mono tube power amplifiers, a Dynaco PAS3 preamplifier, and a Dual 1019 turntable with a Shure V15 type II moving magnet cartridge. Those speakers rocked that old Victorian house in San Francisco.
Those were the days, at least the one's I can remember. . :cool:


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Back in 1968 I owned a pair of Altec A7 speakers. I drove them with a pair of McIntosh MC30 mono tube power amplifiers, a Dynaco PAS3 preamplifier, and a Dual 1019 turntable with a Shure V15 type II moving magnet cartridge. Those speakers rocked that old Victorian house in San Francisco.
Those were the days, at least the one's I can remember. . :cool:


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Dan, you’re dating yourself. [emoji41]


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I wonder how those A7 speakers would sound now in a home since they were never designed for home use? Altec has a bunch of cool vintage home speakers that are horn based and some of them command good money.
 
Back in 1968 I owned a pair of Altec A7 speakers. I drove them with a pair of McIntosh MC30 mono tube power amplifiers, a Dynaco PAS3 preamplifier, and a Dual 1019 turntable with a Shure V15 type II moving magnet cartridge. Those speakers rocked that old Victorian house in San Francisco.
Those were the days, at least the one's I can remember. . :cool:


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Damn, Dan. Those look like some kind of commercial HVAC units. Bet they could move some air! :crackedout:
 
I wonder how those A7 speakers would sound now in a home since they were never designed for home use? Altec has a bunch of cool vintage home speakers that are horn based and some of them command good money.

Mark.......I also owned a pair of Altec Valencia speakers for years. I drove them with a McIntosh MA230 integrated amplifier, solid state preamp and 30 watts per channel tube power amp and a single chassis. The Valencia's had the same 15' woofers, plus the same horn and compression drivers as the Voice of the Theater but were easier to blend into home decor.


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Damn, Dan. Those look like some kind of commercial HVAC units. Bet they could move some air! :crackedout:

Rance.......The A7's were huge and ugly but the could fill a room with sound that seemed like a live performance. The old Victorian house in San Francisco that I shared with a friend had 10' ceilings, and the room where the speakers were set up was 16' x 25'. The Altecs managed to work well in that room. They were efficient at 102 dB with 1 watt measured at 6 feet. The McIntosh MC30 mono tube amps never broke a sweat. These speakers could rattle the windows and the floor. The house always had people coming over and the music never stopped playing.
 
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