Paste as plain text instead, 1) Timbre shifts due to SPL polar control issues vs. frequency - with particular emphasis on both vertical and horizontal polar patterns that are bandpassed due to loss of polar control. Clear editor. I hope you are aware the A7 is an industrial looking box intended to be custom finished for residential use. You'll have to listen for yourself and see what "does it" for you. This item is sold As-Described and cannot be returned unless it arrives in a condition different from how it was described or photographed. The jubs have been in the house about 7 months now, & I have only listened, have not even started the cosmetic plans of staining the center panel's to match walls & still kicking around different options for grill cloth etc. It's as if the 511 was made for it! Take heart, there will soon be an answer to the WAF and the horn upgrade! The weak point is that K501 and K401 horn itself! If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Set of 2 Two Vintage Altec Lansing A7 Speakers Wood Cabinets . this can result in this site earning a commission. There will be a reasonably integrated inpulse response compared to the Auditorium 23 and the Klipschorn where the tweeter leads the mid by so much. Altec You cannot paste images directly. Look man, I hate to break it to you but all horns shout. I personally don't care for the Altec horns. They just sound "off" and I dunno how else to describe it. I would much sooner go with an EV or JBL, b I'm also thinking about replacing the T-35 tweeters with Beyma CP-25s. Altec This article explains what we need to know about these speakers that are still highly sought-after with many still in use in cinemas. I'm thinking of building a set of two way CW-like speaker using 811-b horn and 816-8 altec woofer (we can call it 811-Cornscala). I currently own both. They both do differnt things well. I have to say that if I put the amount of money into the Altecs that I have in 811 sounds just like 511 but 511 has a higher cutt-off frequency. Altec A7 Voice of the Theater VOTT Speakers - Altec horns excellent in a small room and in a big room, word of mouth and UPDATE: The forums, gallery and advanced search upgrades have been purchased. Thanks for the info on your Klipschorn modded with tactrix mids. Copyright 2022 Klipsch Group, Inc. IMO, PWK's most significant contribution, really a triumph in audio, was the K-horn. The difference between A5 and A7 is the HF horn: the former uses one of the multi cells, the latter the sectoral type horn. Yes, the A7s didn't have a great low frequency response, and their high end response was only as good as the khorns. Many Altec sheets used to say their tweeters went out to 22K Hz, but I have never seen this confirmed by other testers. Given that he did, I thought he might want to know that as big of hammer that the Khorn is, there are in fact, bigger hammers out there. The Horns alone have been selling up around $1300 a pair on E-Bay, without the $500 Custom Paint Job these have. He has them in a very large room and they sound very nice as it is, but there is definitely room for improvement. I wish I had an option to get some new khorns. The A7-500-8 features improved high-frequency projection over the A7-8, but both are less sensitive and capable of slightly less maximum acoustic output than the A5X. Pasted as rich text. Like a Klipschorn 20 great HF watts is all you will ever need. It's futile. The bottom end is there but not so predominant until the power is applied and at that point things are This is a sample of Klipsch's Flagship speaker displayed on their website! The Altecs haved dynamics coupled with an effortlessness that's essentially unmatched by anything else even close to reasonably sized or priced. Interesting. I suggest mounting the tweeter in the very top in one side of the woofer horn mouth. For the record, I bought an original set of Altec A7-500s in 1968, and they are still my main speakers - modified, of course. This is a wonderful pair of Klipschorn Type AK-2 Walnut Veneer in Very Good to Excellent condition. It's reality. You need the Altec 511b horn instead. Waiting on Xenforo to set a date for installing the upgrades.