Altec 846B Valencia renovation

Over the past months I have ren­o­vat­ed a pair of Altec 846B Valen­cia speak­ers. They looked like you would expect from a 50+ year old speak­er that has seen one or the oth­er house par­ty in its life­time: beat up. When I went to pick them up I noticed some­thing way worse, though: both 806–8A com­pres­sion horn dri­vers didn’t work, as in: at all.

Every­thing else looked in rel­a­tive­ly good shape and untouched, so I decid­ed to go all in on the ren­o­va­tion and use these as my main speakers.

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Com­po­nents

• 806–8A com­pres­sion drivers
• 811B horns
• 416–8Z (416–8A) alni­co woofers
• N800-8K divid­ing net­work, lat­er sub­sti­tut­ed with
• N1201-8A divid­ing network

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More details about every­thing to fol­low soon. In the mean­while check #altec7188 on Insta­gram and the videos below ↓

making-of videos:

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