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Altec 1593B

Post by Novella » Sun Sep 19, 2010 1:29 am

I have a pair of Altec 1593b's and have been thinking about running them with a vintage pair of JBl monitors that I have. was curious if anyone has any experience with these and what they think.
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Post by joel hamilton » Wed Sep 22, 2010 7:12 pm

they sound great. enjoy.
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They really sound good if they are in good shape. You may need to re-cap them.
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Post by A.David.MacKinnon » Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:56 am

I've got one in the rack that gets regular use driving the reverb chamber or mono headphone mixes. No complaints. I think it sounds great.

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Post by witchfeet » Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:33 pm

They look cool anyways! I just got an Altec 9444b and it seems to sound fine running my monitors. The build quality is really good, I know that. I like older stuff better most of the time, it just seems more robustly built for the most part. Of course, I can't afford anything new that's actually super nice so... haha.

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