Nice. I would love to hear the 4.1 because it is using the same Supravox driver as a midrange as I use in my DIY horn project. I had a customer back when I was a KR Audio dealer that had a predecessor to the Lansche Cubus. It was called the Goa. Interestingly, it had an outboard active crossover (made by Lansche) between the built-in dual 12 inch subs and the rest of the speaker, which was a high sensitivty mid-bass coupler, a horn loaded midrange and, of course, an ion tweeter. He ran it with two KR Audio Kronzilla stereo amps...one for the bass and one for the rest. Sounded really awesome.
Modern speakers vs Vintage speakers
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You should have higher and can definitely raise your expectations quite a bit if you have the right electronics. Vintage doesn’t mean limited!
Hard to beat if in proper condition!
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what's the size of the room? An A7 gets out of horn loading pretty early in the bass, an A5 is slightly later but ideally you want to go up to 817 so that you can have two woofers. But you need a bigger room
I am going to use my linving room open to kitchen on the second floor
25 ft wide 40 ft long 25ft high with open attic to the third floor.
A800 sounds nice in big open space with just one 15 inch woofer.
I may be able to set up big Western horn system in my secnd floor if I get one.
What a grand space. Seems like a big multi-cell horn in that room would be awesome!
Yesterday, I crossed US Canadian border to pick up Altec A7 speakers located in West Vancouver.
I borrowed my friend's truck since I can carry only one of it with my Suv.
The owner has a beatiful house looking over Vancouver downtown and bay.
He picked it up about 15 years ago from church.
But after renovation of his house, he plan to switch to modern speaker.
He was playing some music through it to show it is working fine.
It is good to have elevator to carry heavy speakers or amplifiers. The previous owner of this house was M.D. who built small elevator for ER use.
My main listeing room is located in attic space of third floor. But this Altec A7 is too big for the space. Thus I will set it up on the second floor.
I will use Silbatone 300B SET fitted with Western Electric 300b made in 1940's. The source will be EMMLac Dac2 and Jay's audio CDT2 or Cocktail Audio X30.
After fully setting it up, I will give my impression of it.
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You are a man of action Thomas! Awesome. Very exciting project under way and looking forwards to seeing it all unfold. Hopefully later even with videos to help us enjoy the evolution of your adventure even more at a distance. What a great moveView attachment 82440
Yesterday, I crossed US Canadian border to pick up Altec A7 speakers located in West Vancouver.
I borrowed my friend's truck since I can carry only one of it with my Suv.
The owner has a beatiful house looking over Vancouver downtown and bay.
He picked it up about 15 years ago from church.
But after renovation of his house, he plan to switch to modern speaker.
He wa playing some music through it to show it is working fine.
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It is good to have elevator to carry heavy speakers or amplifiers. The previous owner of this house was M.D. who built small elevator for ER use.
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My main listeing room is loated in attic space of third floor. But this Altec A7 is too big for the space. I will use Silbatone 300B SET fitted with Western Electric 300b made in 1940's. The source will be EMMLac Dac2 and Jay's audio CDT2 or Cocktail Audio X30.
After fully setting it up, I will give impression of it.
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I wonder at the point where it may dawn upon your benefactor the enormity of the error in judgment that he has just made...
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This is great stuff and would love to hear These speakers.View attachment 82440
Yesterday, I crossed US Canadian border to pick up Altec A7 speakers located in West Vancouver.
I borrowed my friend's truck since I can carry only one of it with my Suv.
The owner has a beatiful house looking over Vancouver downtown and bay.
He picked it up about 15 years ago from church.
But after renovation of his house, he plan to switch to modern speaker.
He was playing some music through it to show it is working fine.
View attachment 82441
It is good to have elevator to carry heavy speakers or amplifiers. The previous owner of this house was M.D. who built small elevator for ER use.
View attachment 82443
My main listeing room is loated in attic space of third floor. But this Altec A7 is too big for the space. Thus I will set it up on the second floor.
I will use Silbatone 300B SET fitted with Western Electric 300b made in 1940's. The source will be EMMLac Dac2 and Jay's audio CDT2 or Cocktail Audio X30.
After fully setting it up, I will give my impression of it.
You are a man of action Thomas! Awesome. Very exciting project under way and looking forwards to seeing it all unfold. Hopefully later even with videos to help us enjoy the evolution of your adventure even more at a distance. What a great move
He did not appear to be serious audiophile although he had used Mckintosh amp to drive ti.
The critical thing is WAF.
His wife does not want to keep old speaker in living room after full renovation.
Spectacular! Congrats, ThomasK...very much look forward to reading all about it.
You are a man of action Thomas! Awesome. Very exciting project under way and looking forwards to seeing it all unfold. Hopefully later even with videos to help us enjoy the evolution of your adventure even more at a distance. What a great move
Thanks a lot for your compliment.
My listeing room on the third floor used to be tidy( 4 years ago). But it is now too clowded with no more room for Altec A7;
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My wife would not want to keep this one in the living room.She is kicking him out
She is away to take care of her ailing mother now.
If she is back, I may need to prepare gift for her
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Candles, favorite beverage, slow dance to the Altecs...she will decide they are the best thing ever
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