Maker film / Western Electric
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Selected from the maker’s website: a closer look at its products, people or design approach.
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Western Electric
Loudspeakers / USA
Western Electric
Western Electric’s current audio work includes 300B valves. Vintage cabinets bearing the name belong to an earlier cinema-sound history and should be distinguished from current production.
Design & approach
Western Electric’s history connects audio with a much wider communications and manufacturing tradition. Its contemporary manufacturing film offers a closer look at the people and processes behind the brand. In the venue records, a Western Electric valve or historical cabinet credit identifies a specific contribution rather than authorship of the whole system.
Venue equipment records, including their original model uncertainties. Shared-system entries retain the full recorded context.
- WE 825 cabinets
Components
Western Electric WE 825 cabinets. Historic WE/Altec-family bass or monitor cabinets used with 300B and field-coil chains at Bar Neiro. @westernelectric / westernelectric.com.
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From the maker’s world.
Products, process and directly attributed installations.
Western Electric on Instagram
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Hear it in the rooms.
Equipment, commissions and collaborations.
Bar Neiro lists Western Electric in its loudspeakers setup. The equipment details below reflect the venue record.
- Loudspeakers: A5; WE 825 cabinets; 515b woofers; 1505b horns; 288c compression drivers (Altec / Western Electric)