A friend of mine had a Voice of the Theater system, the industrial grey model. A momster corner horn assembly. When stereo records came out he chose to get rid of it, he was not about to have two of them in his living room. JJ --- "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The only Altec Lansing speakers I am famliar with > were the Voice of > the Theater (dating myself here) and the 318H 15" > speakers in an Ampeg > Bass Amp. I hear that you can have the old Altec > Spekers re-coned and > they will be better than new. > > Peter K > > > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:20:33 -0800 (PST), John > Jensen > <jwjensen356@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I don't think that Altec Lansing had a Peerless > line > > of speakers. However, there was a highly regarded > > transformer maker named Peerless that was acquired > by > > Altec Lansing. Peerless output transformers were > > highly regarded back in the golden age of audio. > >=20 > > Then along came David Hafler and Herbert Keroes > > (spelling?) and formed Acrosound with their > > transformers. Hafler later spun off from Acro > forming > > Dynaco making audio output transformers which > seemed > > to be a knockoff of Acros. Acro and Dynaco output > > transformers were also highly regarded. > >=20 > > John > >=20 > > --- Ruben <ruben@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >=20 > > > I think that the Peerless I brought up was the > > > Danish ones since I originate > > > from Denmark and I took them out of some old > Danish > > > speaker cabinetts from > > > the 70 ties that had been damaged while the > units > > > survived :-) I was not > > > aware of an American Peerless production :-) > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "A. Lal" <alal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 2:02 PM > > > Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Completely OT- > > > Loudspeaker info a pop up question > > > > > > > > > >I believe the Peerless you refer to was an > > > altogether different > > > > comapany. The Peerless brand name was used by > > > Altec-Lansing in the > > > > early days of hi fi. Altec (All Technical > > > Products) was an off-shoot of > > > > Western Electric. WE pretty much wrote the > book > > > on all aspects of sound > > > > reproduction, Blumlien and EMI only made minor > > > contributions in > > > > comarisison. Anyone interested in hi Fi > should > > > have a look at early > > > > numbers of the Bell System Technical Journal, > by > > > the way. Later on Jim > > > > Lansing left Altec and went on to found JBL > (James > > > B. Lansing), now > > > > part of the Harman group. I'm sure the older > > > members of the list can add > > > > to this. Jerry, Richard? > > > > > > > > Today there are two companies making speakers > > > under the Peerless brand > > > > name. One, in Denmark, is part of the DST > group, > > > the other, in India, > > > > makes low cost OEM drivers some of which were > used > > > in KEF's and other > > > > makers lower priced systems. At one time the > two > > > Peerless' were linked > > > > but now they operate as separate companies. > > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > > > >> From: rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > >> [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > > > Behalf Of Jerry Lehrer > > > >> Sent: 16 February, 2005 23:20 > > > >> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > >> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Completely OT- > > > Loudspeaker info a > > > >> pop up question > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> Richard, > > > >> > > > >> Peerless (not Pearless) built some high > > > efficiency tweeters > > > >> in the "old > > > >> days". > > > >> > > > >> Jerry > > > >> > > > >> Richard Knoppow wrote: > > > >> > > > >> > ----- Original Message ----- > > > >> > From: "Ruben" <ruben@xxxxxxxxx> > > > >> > To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > >> > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:16 AM > > > >> > Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Completely OT- > > > Loudspeaker info a > > > >> > pop up question > > > >> > > > > >> > >I see that you are talking loudspeakers > and I > > > have a couple > > > >> > >of questions > > > >> > > > > > >> > > 1. On an amplifier it is often statet to > use > > > only 8 ohm > > > >> > > speakers - I I have > > > >> > > a speaker unit and it mesures 8 ohm when > an > > > Ohm meter is > > > >> > > attached to the + - > > > >> > > I guess it is ok - but what if there are > more > > > thant one > > > >> > > speaker ? or my > > > >> > > speaker set is only 4 Ohm - can you just > put > > > a resitant 4 > > > >> > > ohm on the wire > > > >> > > and everything is cool ??? > > > >> > > 2. I have several boxes with speaker > units, > > > from jbl, > > > >> > > cervin vega, pearless, > > > >> > > b&o, kef and b&w - I would like to built > new > > > cabinets and > > > >> > > could use a guide > > > >> > > to both "spliting filters" - cabinet > > > acoustics etc. Can > > > >> > > you recommend books > > > >> > > on do it your self high end speakers ?? > > > >> > > > > > >> > > thanks and sorry for jumping into your > thread > > > >> > > > > > >> > > Ruben > > > >> > > > > >> > The impedance of a loudspeaker is not > its DC > > > resistance > > > >> > and can not be measured with an ohm meter. > > > >> > Some of the drivers you have were > intended > > > to be used in > > > >> > specific systems. Its possible to use them > in a > > > home built > > > >> > box but for an optimum box you have to make > a > > > lot of > > > >> > measurements on them. Small low frequency > > > speakers such as > > > >> > those used by KEF, B&O, and B&W are > intended to > > > be used in > > > >> > rather small boxes of the sort I mentioned > > > earlier where the > > > >> > box stiffness becomes part of the restoring > > > force of the > > > >> > speaker. Cerwin-Vega built mainly high > power > > > speakers for > > > >> > sound re-inforcement or musical instrument > use. > > > JBL has made > > > >> > an enormous number of models over the years > > > some of which > > > >> > are specific to JBL systems and some of > which > > > are general > > > >> > purpose speakers. I am not familiar with > > > Pearless. > > > >> > I am enough out of touch with audio that > I > > > don't know of > > > >> > a book currently in print that covers > crossover > > > networks but > === message truncated ===