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<blockquote data-quote="Agaton Sax" data-source="post: 252978" data-attributes="member: 2475"><p>Certainly. The most famous speaker nobody's heard of. Abbey Road used Altecs back in the day-there are photos of the Beatles in front of them. Despite the fact that back then Tannoys HQ was in London.Elvis was monitored on them and Sinatra and Hendrix etc etc. Doug Sax's famous Big Reds at the Mastering lab were Altec Duplexes.As said Urei used these. Urei swept up the studio market in the 70s to such an extent that JBL had to take them over or disappear themselves.I borrowed this from Gearslutz:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://nyc2img.soundclick.com/69/imgPages/4/3/3439044_618294.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As does the Tannoys. It is clear there in the pics on this thread.How else would it work? The Altec uses its compression driver with its own magnet behind the Bass driver. This gives the compressor horn enough length to terminate into a proper controlled dispersion horn.The Tannoys uses a very short length horn that then abruptly terminates into a shallow "Waveguide".</p><p></p><p>The Altecs btw are still being made by Great Plains Audio in Oklahoma.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.greatplainsaudio.com/2_way.html" target="_blank">http://www.greatplainsaudio.com/2_way.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Agaton Sax, post: 252978, member: 2475"] Certainly. The most famous speaker nobody's heard of. Abbey Road used Altecs back in the day-there are photos of the Beatles in front of them. Despite the fact that back then Tannoys HQ was in London.Elvis was monitored on them and Sinatra and Hendrix etc etc. Doug Sax's famous Big Reds at the Mastering lab were Altec Duplexes.As said Urei used these. Urei swept up the studio market in the 70s to such an extent that JBL had to take them over or disappear themselves.I borrowed this from Gearslutz: [IMG]http://nyc2img.soundclick.com/69/imgPages/4/3/3439044_618294.jpg[/IMG] As does the Tannoys. It is clear there in the pics on this thread.How else would it work? The Altec uses its compression driver with its own magnet behind the Bass driver. This gives the compressor horn enough length to terminate into a proper controlled dispersion horn.The Tannoys uses a very short length horn that then abruptly terminates into a shallow "Waveguide". The Altecs btw are still being made by Great Plains Audio in Oklahoma. [url=http://www.greatplainsaudio.com/2_way.html]http://www.greatplainsaudio.com/2_way.html[/url] [/QUOTE]
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