Nate Dort wrote: Sat Feb 24, 2024 3:21 pm I'd make a separate dolly for it, like a B15 has, then bolt it through the bottom of the cabinent with 4 or 6 machine bolts + nuts + washers. Wouldn't bother fixing the borken areas.

I hadn't considered a semi-permanent dolly, sounds like the way to go, thank you. I considered just using a moving dolly like it's sitting on in the photo but those are kinda PITA (I still cannot figure out how Dylan got it up and down the stairs of his studio alone). I might do something w/ T-nuts in the base so it can be taken off without having to undo one million screws. Regardless I definitely want to go w/ bolts instead of wood screws considering how beefcake this thing is.

I have a feeling this is going to be a practice/recording bass cab unless I just decide to sell off the speakers individually. They look brand new.

Update. JFC those Altecs seem to have jumped in asking price. I could sell 3 of the 4 and cover what I paid for the Sunn head (#bragalert, sorry).

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: I have an oversized vintage Ampeg V2 4x12 in the same format and the same speakers. It looks the same except somebody redid mine in Vox grill cloth, Dumble style.

This made a lot of sense, especially considering how some of those Ampeg cabs could be upgraded from the factory with the Altecs, but I looked up a few and I don't think this is an ampeg cab. The biggest reason is that I haven't seen any Ampegs where it has the porting all the way across the front. The V2 seems to have two smaller rectangular ports left and right. Mine also seems to have a thicker edge around the grill than the Ampegs as well.

The mystery continues!

Garth wrote: Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:15 pm

Nate Dort wrote: Sat Feb 24, 2024 3:21 pm I'd make a separate dolly for it, like a B15 has, then bolt it through the bottom of the cabinent with 4 or 6 machine bolts + nuts + washers. Wouldn't bother fixing the borken areas.

I hadn't considered a semi-permanent dolly, sounds like the way to go, thank you. I considered just using a moving dolly like it's sitting on in the photo but those are kinda PITA (I still cannot figure out how Dylan got it up and down the stairs of his studio alone). I might do something w/ T-nuts in the base so it can be taken off without having to undo one million screws. Regardless I definitely want to go w/ bolts instead of wood screws considering how beefcake this thing is.

Maple Stave did this with Chris’ Avatar 4x12 cab!

That looks like a Garnet BTO cab.

mdc wrote:That looks like a Garnet BTO cab.

Not a Garnet expert, but I went though google image search and the current Garnet site and didn't see any that look like this one. The main issue is the venting in the middle between the upper & lower two speakers. Hard to see through the grill cloth but you get a bit of an idea with the back off.

An additional identifier is that this cab does have a slightly thicker "wall" around that front grill cloth. This allows for the 3-leg cab corners vs most other mfgs will use 2-banger with a little lip as they just fit around the 3/4" mdf or plywood.

That vent in the middle is the other main identifier. Similiarly, you can just see the middle venting in what image search says is a Peavey Musician cabinet...
...but the sidewalls & three-leg corners up front nix this as a possibility - plus who would go to the trouble of taking off the aluminum rails?

A couple additional potential identifers are the strap locations on the side (one has been removed) and the cup-style single input jack that is offset from center around the back.

It looks like I can take the grill cloth off with a series of flat-head screws but Im loathe to do this.

I don't think it's a Peavey Musician cabinet. They didn't have removable back panels, and their 1/4" jacks were in the center, not offset:

Hard to tell from the photo, but it looks like only one pair of speakers is ported. The others are sealed. Is that correct?

There's a Sunn 4x12 at MGR Toledo that looks similar from the back:

https://www.musicgoround.com/product/to ... -bass-amps

Hmm yeah thats the closest fit so far. I scoured the internet to try to find an oversized and vented 4x12 Sunn cab like that w zero success.

There are a couple key differences though with mine - the more distinctive cabinet corners plus someone would have had to have replaced the grill cloth and added piping but not outside the realm of possibility.

But it does make the most sense that there was a sunn cab paired with the sunn head.

The torlex on yours is different than any Sunn torlex I've seen also.

It's a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma.

Looks garnety to me, the two handles seems peaveyish though, jack location being different as well
If you take the back off, if the speakers say marsland anywhere that would seal it

Wouldn't be surprised if garnet built for sunn at some point

The wood, construction, tolex, corners, handle hardware and placement, and Altecs all scream late 60s/early 70s era Ampeg. The grill and piping would have been redone. I too would have said V2 if it weren’t for the type of venting. Maybe it was a prototype and decided to do the two small holes in production because it was cheaper?

I agree that a caster cart might be the way. Or just mount casters to the side that doesn’t have the handles (much easier the wheel such a large cab that way).