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RUS
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hi.
is this the eminence front horn bass/mid enclosure.
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Rog
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Looks a lot like an Altec 816
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mykey
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does anyone remember a company (Robbo, JBL) from Stratford East London that built cabinets, can't think of the name, they were at the top of Romford Road
they designed a 2 x 15 cab (15's stacked) with a horn on the front, same as the picture above, but had 2 ports on the rear, the port lengths were the thicness of the wood (18mm) and they were placed so you could see the magnets
the volume of the cab was the rear chamber plus all the space behind the horns, laoded with Fane/Mckensie
these were the best house party bins ever
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RUS
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hi.
here is a picture of the eminence 1 x 15" front horn bass/mid enclosure.
now they look identical to the purple looking cab above.
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geez
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The Altec 816 is one of the cabs that started my interest in PA's (Froggy's ASS 215 setup was the other). In the early 80's I went camping in Bournmouth with some m8's, Level 42 were doing a gig at a club called Jensens and they had about 30 816's, it was the loudest i'd ever heard. I then heard them flown as upper bass / mid units in Oscars (Newbury park) and decided i definately needed some.
As luck would have it I found some unloaded 816 clones in Garland Bros, Deptford, bought 2 for 80 quid each and loaded them with twincone McKenzies 150w drivers, done loads of house/garden parties, always sounded good from small rooms inside to massive gardens outside. Copied the design and made 2 more. Made (assembled) my own amps from BI-PRE_PAK 125W modules (anyone remember them ?) 2 bridged per stack. Best party ever with this rig was Pimlico telephone exchange christmas party (I was apprentice BT engineer at the time) 4x816, 4xMcKenzie Bullet tweeters, 4x Celestion 1" compression drivers, 300 people had ringing ears for a week. Long live the 816, a true classic and a brilliant all-rounder. Regards Tom |
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