Maker film / Western Electric
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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.
Bar Neiro
From the maker’s world.
Products, process and directly attributed installations.
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)