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I agree that the Altec speakers will hold their value much better than most if not all Infinity commercial products. There are a few rare Infinity speakers that were intended as audiophile products but these have been few and far between. Old vintage Altec equipment like old McIntosh tube equipment just keep on trading and going up in value. Now if he is going to enjoy them at their best he needs to upgrade the electronics, but do put away the old parts to replace if someone wants to purchase these later as original vintage equipment. Customized vintage equipment always loses some value without the original equipment.
And I should have said that my Barcelona cabinets contain the 511 horns and not the smaller 811's. I wonder if Brush Wellman has a beryllium replacement for those that would drop in? Probably not but I could change the drivers to Radian or TAD and get a better top end. I haven't touched them in years and they are original. They are more furniture than anything else these days, but I wouldn't get rid of them. Perhaps it is time to update them and take another listen, I haven't heard them in a long time.......😀
I agree that the Altec speakers will hold their value much better than most if not all Infinity commercial products. There are a few rare Infinity speakers that were intended as audiophile products but these have been few and far between. Old vintage Altec equipment like old McIntosh tube equipment just keep on trading and going up in value. Now if he is going to enjoy them at their best he needs to upgrade the electronics, but do put away the old parts to replace if someone wants to purchase these later as original vintage equipment. Customized vintage equipment always loses some value without the original equipment.
And I should have said that my Barcelona cabinets contain the 511 horns and not the smaller 811's. I wonder if Brush Wellman has a beryllium replacement for those that would drop in? Probably not but I could change the drivers to Radian or TAD and get a better top end. I haven't touched them in years and they are original. They are more furniture than anything else these days, but I wouldn't get rid of them. Perhaps it is time to update them and take another listen, I haven't heard them in a long time.......😀
Yep thats the right Infinity in your photo tiefbassuebertr, but my altec's seem to be in custom boxes of sum type. They look very legit even have brass inlays in the tops. The guy I brought them from said he got them from the sydney opera house but he did tell a few half truths about them. Like one of the original crossovers was missing with sum sub-standard xovers hooked up to em. So I made my own to original specs they sound sweet through the Naim but I'm going to try what people suggesting. I managed to score a Crown VFX2A two-way active crossover and I'm going to try get me a pair of Mcintosh's to drive em. Wish me luck..
P.s. to the Moderator sorry I'm new.
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"Muddy" is not a term peole typically use to describe the Q3. What you may have is a broken speaker. That is very common as they are complex. the woofer is a dual coil and there are three other drivers and a five-way passive crossover.
It is not uncommon to have a blown electrostatic tweeter and the tiny wires in the dome midrange can fail too. And then there arethose large eletrolytic caps in the crossover that maybe only have a 25 year lifetime. And the woofer foam would never last and must have been replace one or twice by now. That job could have been done expertly or not.
The sound from a factory new Q3 is best described as "accurate" It is very close to what you'd get from a pair of AKG studio headphones.
However the Q3 is hard to drive and needs a very high quality, high current amp with at least 100W per side. Those dual voice coil woofer suck up "tons" of current and I think go below 4 ohms with sensitivity in the low 80 dB rang.
If you have a god amp and they are still muddy then they are broken somehow. Snd them out to Orange County Speaker in California. Or sell them to me cheap "as is". I need the parts for repairing another pair.
I hate to see this done, it's sad but the worst case is to build a sub woofer with a pair of salved Infinity dual coil drivers. Those drivers will do 18Hz in a sealed box and you could use a cheap Crown 1KW amp to drive them. That setup would blow the glass out of your windows. The dual coils avoids the impedance bump at resonance. They used a crossover to swap voice coils so the amp never sees F0. But that method obviously suck up a LOT of power hence the suggestion of the 1KW class D amp.
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