Matching this particular mid-woofer to that horn set made pure sonic sense. The Altec 16″ woofer offered an excellent higher-end range best to meet the lower-end capability of the great horn combination. Combining the 811 lenses with this driver was pure audio art! The horn is efficient and has a well-established design by Altec. The horn lens has outstanding dispersion characteristics for excellent room coverage and smooth frequency response. Back in the day, it was revolutionary for a horn driver this size to hold the more distant high-end frequency capability this driver delivered. The “Tangerine” horn driver had extended upper range capacity not many, if any, had when these were initially built. This is somewhat of a scaled-down version of the venerable VOTT – but with better frequency extensions.
The heritage behind the Model 19 is the Altec Voice Of The Theatre legacy. However, this is not just any simple two-way type speaker. It is fantastic in design, being a simple two-way type. This is a speaker for the audiophile as well as an occasional listener. In this article, I’ll do my best to pick the best vintage Altec Lansing speakers and review those I tested.
My colleague owns a 15″ Lansing element from the 1930s and several Altec Lansing 311b, 604, 811b, Model 19, as well as some other models.
Horn-loaded – speakers (e.g., all at Altec) gained a reputation for harshness in HF and midrange coloration, and consumer demand for them almost dried up by the mid-1970s.
The popularity of Altec Lansing theatrical loudspeakers among audiophiles waned in the mid-1950s with the promotion of the Acoustic Research/Janszen dynamic/electrostatic hybrid loudspeaker. Then it went down in connection with purchases from various technology/investment companies, and engineers fled to other companies like JBL, EV, and others.Īny day of the week, older Altec Lansing beats those other companies with better active filters and PEQ regarding audible distortion and frequency response.Īltec Lansing stands in a class of its own of older high-sensitivity speakers. Altec Lansing was dominant in the USA in cinemas and studios, and homes with “higher requirements” from the 40s until the late 70s.
0 kommentar(er)
