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2000th post...What have I done?

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Glory or Death!
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I've come a long way Baby, 2000 posts and counting...Here's a teaser picture of our listening test, standing in the rain. I'll post all the gory details tomorrow.

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These things will pin your ears back with 1 watt, bloody amazing....

More later...:banana::banana::music::music:...:thmbsp:
 

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Let's see:scratch2:. 2 garage doors? Check! 2 Honda-sized speakers? Check! You are prepared to be blown away, please keep your arms and hands out from in front of the speakers until the music comes to a complete stop. :D

Congrats!:thmbsp::guitar::guitar::rockon::rockon:
 
WOW is right! I'm really looking forward to posts 2001, 2002, etc... where you show more pics and give more details of that listening test! :yes: [Too bad about the rain, though. :sigh:]
 
Let's see:scratch2:. 2 garage doors? Check! 2 Honda-sized speakers? Check! You are prepared to be blown away, please keep your arms and hands out from in front of the speakers until the music comes to a complete stop. :D

Congrats!:thmbsp::guitar::guitar::rockon::rockon:

There's more than two in there...;)

If listening to those 811's the first time made me an Altec fan, listening to these today (well, yesterday as of now) was a whole 'nother level of fun :smoke:

Damn shame I had to leave to get up here...I want to hear those Nineteens sometime :)
 
Thanks for your help Jimbo!

JimJ[VT];1758834 said:
There's more than two in there...;)

If listening to those 811's the first time made me an Altec fan, listening to these today (well, yesterday as of now) was a whole 'nother level of fun :smoke:

Damn shame I had to leave to get up here...I want to hear those Nineteens sometime :)

Couldn't have done it without you. I'm glad that you came away with something out of it. :thmbsp:

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'Twould be nice to hear something like "Slow Ride" by Foghat moderately cranked on them puppies...Congrats, Noob-No-More !
 
Holy crap, dude! I thought my garage was getting full!

How many people have a big enough room in their house for even a pair of those?
 
Two A's,

WHOA! You are a LUCKY Man indeed to own such a pair of Speakers!
Dear God, I would be THRILLED to even own ONE of those babies as part of a Mono system! Super Congrats!

Regards,
Tom Patrick aka SixCats!
 
Whoa !

those are some serious speakers :yes:

when are you opening your 'Analog Addict Backyard Theater' ?

just need a LCD Projector and a big king sized sheet on the wall of your garage - Altecs to either side . . .

I can hear Star Wars now . . .
 
Au contrair!

Two A's,

WHOA! You are a LUCKY Man indeed to own such a pair of Speakers!
Dear God, I would be THRILLED to even own ONE of those babies as part of a Mono system! Super Congrats!

Regards,
Tom Patrick aka SixCats!

Not just a pair, 3 LH horns and 3 1005/288 sets. I only had 2 bays up and running because I had a car still in the third bay of the garage...:D

Pix of the first of the LF horns we unpacked....(Please ignore the stacks of other speakers/consoles/etc piled up in the background. I have this "problem" you see....:nono:)

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I kinda felt like we were exhuming a family of mummies from a dusty old tomb. Seriously, these things have at least 1/8" of thick greasy dust on them. I don't want to even guess how many acres of popcorn added to the mix. The LF horns also have that splatter of screen paint on them. They do have some chips on the some of the edges, but given how old they are and how far they came, I can't complain. The fellow who packed them did an excellent job, and I am going to send him a token of my appreciation...:thmbsp:

I do need him to check to see if the crossover cover is lying around there somewhere. The first of the LF horns is missing this cover.

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Anyone wanna guess what the other connections are for here?

Pix of the 515's...

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Anyone able to tell if these are 515's or 515b's???:scratch2: How about the different #'s on the cones? serial numbers?
 

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Nice.. I hope you can find room for them!

Why not just cut a big square hole in two of your garage doors, mount the speakers inside and have the very first "Boom Box House" on your block! Paint the windows up to look like meters, make some shutters that looks like knobs and toggles. (someone photoshop this please) The neighbors will love you.
 
The neighbors already got a taste....

I'm working up to those pix, but on an ASR-433, 15 or so watts of glorious toob power, I could easily make these get painfully loud at half way down the driveway (~50'), and sweet sounding at the end of the driveway (~100').

However, at the end of the driveway, I started hearing echoes off the neighbor's houses....:nono:
 
Were those the ones that you were having shipped from my hometown state of Nebraska? :scratch2:

Scott
 
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