Thanks Bill, definitely proud of my babies. I am spending some time with them today and not sure if it’s just me, but I’m feeling a slight bit more low end. It will be interesting to see how soundstage and vocals are placed, given the separate drivers (Versus concentric; 604’s). More to come.
Thanks, I may have to coin your phrase if I decide to mass produce the “phantom sleds”.Beautiful! Those are absolutely stunning. And hey, those horn sleds just disappear!Super nice.
Thanks @prime minister . Also, thank you for creating this site, so I could document the iconic journey.
Thanks Anthony, much appreciated. I’ll have to say that your fearlessness in attacking big/difficult projects has motivated me a time or two to move mine along.
Thanks, if I ever decide to build wood horns, I will definitely sand them down and stain them to match.
Very cool, thanks for sharing! I’ve thought of having a set of amps built to sit up on the cabinets but wondered about vibration of tubes/harmonics…
Are those amps or field coil power supplies?
It’s hard to make out in the picture but I’d guess a power supply and standard or high gain amp. It appears that the very early versions had the field coil speakers, but you could pay the additional money to have permanent magnet speakers.
Thanks @Leben , I may hunt down a set of original H808‘s still. Though they are becoming even harder to find. A single one just sold on the bay for a little over 1K, it was a two piece version. Or I may just build some wood ones.
I’ve found multicellular horns to be quite forgiving. I normally angle them away from the walls slightly (like you have yours) and prefer a straight view down the throat of one of the horn sections of each speaker when seated in my listening chair. I have my 612 cabs almost completely against the wall to help reinforce bass.
