Pictured above is Bill Eckle's system housed in home builtcabinets, with smoked glass doors with the interior lit by 'peanut'lamps when the door is open. Also visible are the Aria 5s on the 1259 subcabinets. Of his cabinet, Bill says 'I bought some cheap cabinetsyears ago with the smoked glass doors. I replaced the tops & bottoms,and covered the 1' fiberboard sides, inside & out with 1/4'oak plywood. Added half round oak moldings to the front. Installed 2'x 2' aluminum angle on each side, drilled and tapped the angle forEIA spacing and now have rack-mount cabinets. There are also 'peanut'lamps on the edge of the doors that light when the doors are opened. Nowthe hard part is fabricating angle iron brackets to rack mount all my components.'
Pictured above is the TV base (before the grill clothis installed) with a pair of Altec 755s in the doors to serve as TV speakers.Seldom is the TV played through the main system. This TV base in on castersto provide easy movement, although the rear of the system can be accessedby opening the window behind the cabinets, and reaching in from outside.Switching phone jacks were installed in the TV speaker wires to plugin the 755s. The Altec 755s were designed for speech intelligibility, andare relatively efficient so make excellent TV speakers.
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Bill can be contacted via e-mail at wmeckle@uswest.net
Vintage-Used Altec Speaker / Drivers / spares for sale depending on stock levels & Reference / Data Base. Varies from Woofers, to Duplex, to Horns / Drivers, tweeters, Crossovers / Dividing Networks 83, 288, 311, 402A, 511B horn 421, 421-8H SERIES II, 600B, 603B / 603, 604 604E 605B, 804A, ALTEC 808-8A, H-811B, N1600A N-1600A, 3000B. GS:It depends because Altec offered several different cabinets, such as the A5 and the A new7. The major distinction between the two is usually the horn positioning. On the A new5, the horn is certainly inside the cupboard, whereas on the A7 it's i9000 on top. Then there are usually the horns.
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