Pooh Bear wrote:
Bret Ludwig wrote:

Arny Krueger wrote:

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No, Arny, the classic Altec Lansing gear sets a benchmark for all
time.

You ARE joking right ? Those horn loaded cabs wers simply designed to be loud with
the low power valve amps of the day.


Probably meant the drivers. No one even the SET crowd listens to stock
VOTs!
Some of the old Altec drivers are still very good by any standard.
Ditto JBL.

but Altec Lansing and JBL WERE the
quality driver manufacturers in the United States, a country that
actually did manufacture stuff, for decades. There is still a LOT of
Altec stuff in use, because it was so well built.

None that I know of for sure. Cinemas re-equipped for Dolby and THX will have long
junked all that stuff.


Cinemas are not the only users of this stuff.

The Japanese pay very
good money for it.

Good luck to them. The Japanese seem to like antiques.

New PA and MI gear often is designed to mimic,
interface with, or fit in the void left by it.

NO ! Modern stuff outranks a VOT any day.
Which VOT? Modified A4's are still considered pretty good in rooms of
a certain size. And the Duplex 604 is also still a prized driver-now in
reproduction as the Iconic 704.

http://www.iconicspkrs.com/compoundspeakers.html

The 15" driver using the 604's bass motor components is also a very
highly sought part, both for studio monitoring and by steel guitar
players.