Sunrayjack12

pass and keep looking, run one of those ads in the local paper " will buy old stereo's and speakers" and see what comes your way. Even I have speakers I don't love and they are just taking up room, I have even given speakers away because I found someone who really wanted a system and had no free money . You just might just get that special call.

Tubes, just my opinion, it's like watching the crowd go one way and you choose the less traveled path at a slower pace and enjoy the scenery. Find you a nice Fisher 500C and be happy.

They were built in 95

Altec 511 horn, yes I needed a picture just to see if it would post.I

Let me see if I can get a picture on here, it is just a picture from a while back of some of my speakers. It does have Khorns and Heresy's in it. It would not accept that picture but here is one of the Khorns.

I have some vintage macintosh SS gear and I am not all that impressed with it, especially after buying some tube gear at less than half the cost of some of the Mc gear. I have a Mc 2125 and a 2105 amp and a c28 and a c26 receiver along with two model 1900's, maybe if I sent it to Macintosh and had them rebuild it all it may improve some. I bought a Fisher 500C receiver for 800 dollars off the bay and it is the best sounding receiver/amp I have. I have seen some places in New York state that will sell a completely rebuilt Fisher for 1500 to 2000 dollars, if I was going to just have one receiver and wanted vintage, that would be the one. That's not a bad price for nice Fisher put back in new condition in my opinion.

The Dynamo is a nice amp and is more than enough to drive your Khorns. You also have enough power if you change speakers down the road. I have an original st70 and was luck to get a nice one off eBay, I also have a dynakit st70 that I just sent to Bob Linto to build and it's really great.

I will try that Moray, thanks for the tip. I moved the Heresys into the sons room today, I still have not fastened the horns on them yet but he was very happy.

I have a kenwood model eleven for a preamp and a dynamo st70 for tubes and it sounds great. The kenwood has a switch on the back to separate the internal amp so you can run an external amp. A nice Fisher 500C tube receiver would also sound excellent.

I have thought about a vertical horn rather than horizontal but it makes no sense that it would sound better with the sound spread beaming narrower. But it is easy to try it so I guess I will have to try it. I find great pleasure in experimenting with speakers and crossovers, I build cabinets and use available crossovers and components, I have a 14x14 bedroom I turned into my HIFI storage / store room. Mostly Altec horns ,drivers low and hi freq. , some receivers ,amps and complete speakers, the house is full of stereos and speakers, I am single with a two fifteen year old kids and I also home school them. We are always swapping music ,speakers and amps around in this house, they have both already laid claim to their favorite speakers when I am gone like a bad tube. No tv or video games, just stereos ,music and a projector with a screen for net flix old movies and concert dvd's. I have not tried aligning the diaphragm and woofer voice coil, I have read about it, does it make a noticeable improvement?

I will try to get some pictures up this weekend, I seem to have a heck of a time getting pictures on these forums.

I am a vintage speaker guy, I love my Altecs and JBL's but also my Khorns and heresy also. I have been thinking about adding Altec 811 horns and drivers to my heresy's. Last night I did just that not knowing how it would turn out, man what a surprise I got. Those Altec horns gave the little Heresy's a big boy sound with a clear crisp mid range that is a delight to listen too. I really liked them before but for me something was just missing the 811's solved that. This can be done with the addition of one 3/16 hole in the back panel to route wires to the horn on top of the speaker cabinet. Just disconnect the internal mid range horn and add a new wire from the screw terminal to the new horn, very simple and reversible operation. I will be painting these horns and making them a permanent addition to my Heresy's now, for the record the horns have 806a drivers.

I really like my mac c26 preamp, going thru my vintage dynaco st70. It didn't break the bank and sounds great, so much detail in the music.