My new favorites are my dad's JBL L-40 2-way speakers. Lots of memory's cranking those puppies up in San Clemente during the early eighties! I've got them reformed and cranking once again!
What about Boston Acoustic Lynnfield series (400L & 500 L2) ?
Beginn to be vintage....
Can we have more than one favorite - and what age is required to qualify as a "vintage" ?
Add to my own list of affordable, compact and easy to drive KLH17 (have a pair of those mounted on my shop wall for at least 5yrs - so far immune to dust ) , and AR2Ax
Add to my own list of affordable, compact and easy to drive KLH17 (have a pair of those mounted on my shop wall for at least 5yrs - so far immune to dust ) , and AR2Ax
Klipsch corner horns 😉 and IMF TLS 80 clones, the latter I still have, so sweet and that bass down to 20 Hz...
QUADS Electrostatics, of course
QUAD-57 for life-like tonality,
QUAD-63 for more convincing spatially, but not quite as alive
Snell Type One (Circa 1979)
(Rare model with floor boundary coupling of mid-woofer and tweeter and remarkable neutral tonality)
Fulton Musical Industries (FMI) 1974 to ~1985
Fulton FMI-80 Original single tweeter version
(Strikingly Musical and life-like middle range; Much like the ESL-57 w/better imaging)
Fulton J-Modular (Using FMI-80 for the mid-range w/subwoofer and RTR ESL-6)
Fulton Premiere (Next generation of J-modular)
(Musically life-like while including great dynamic power and extended bandwidth.)
Spendor BC-1 and BBC LS3/5a, also wonderful, groundbreaking performers
All the above are the kind of loudspeakers that the owners tend to regret giving up in exchange for the latest greatest "breakthrough" speakers with excellent reviews.
Cheers, JC
QUAD-57 for life-like tonality,
QUAD-63 for more convincing spatially, but not quite as alive
Snell Type One (Circa 1979)
(Rare model with floor boundary coupling of mid-woofer and tweeter and remarkable neutral tonality)
Fulton Musical Industries (FMI) 1974 to ~1985
Fulton FMI-80 Original single tweeter version
(Strikingly Musical and life-like middle range; Much like the ESL-57 w/better imaging)
Fulton J-Modular (Using FMI-80 for the mid-range w/subwoofer and RTR ESL-6)
Fulton Premiere (Next generation of J-modular)
(Musically life-like while including great dynamic power and extended bandwidth.)
Spendor BC-1 and BBC LS3/5a, also wonderful, groundbreaking performers
All the above are the kind of loudspeakers that the owners tend to regret giving up in exchange for the latest greatest "breakthrough" speakers with excellent reviews.
Cheers, JC
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A/D/S L1290. I had a pair of 1090s and they were simply fantastic sounding for the money. Very high quality design and manufacturing.
And the Quad electrostatics.
And the Quad electrostatics.
For my main living room listening I use a 1980's Fane 12-50WRMS driver in a new folded horn W bin. I pinched the cabinet design from an old Fane book. It sounds very good.
+1 for ESL 57s. I've had mine since the mid-90s and they were manufactured the year I was born (very early in the Johnson presidency). I've been bi-amping them using a B-5 and it works really well.
I'm getting re-acquainted now with the speakers I grew up with: Tannoy Golds. It's been tricky to optimize them - the Quads are plug and play by comparison. They are definitely majestic!
I'm getting re-acquainted now with the speakers I grew up with: Tannoy Golds. It's been tricky to optimize them - the Quads are plug and play by comparison. They are definitely majestic!
Only 200 DCM 7 Time Windows pairs were made ?
HiFi Collector: Speakers - DCM TimeWindow
I had the pleasure of listening to a couple....🙂
Well positioned the room and fed with good power, they were impressive.
HiFi Collector: Speakers - DCM TimeWindow
I had the pleasure of listening to a couple....🙂
Well positioned the room and fed with good power, they were impressive.
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Helped a friend out with a PA system job, pair of Altec A7, with Crown DC300 and a Revox A77 for signal. Wow back then.
Ooh, I forgot to mention Altec Voice of the Theatres. My favourite theater used those when I was a kid, and they made a huge impression on me.
If I were you I would try to negotiate the WAF and go for a couple of them ......😉
RETURN of a LEGEND: ALTEC A7 Speaker-System; The Voice Of The Theatre (Home and Studio too) S-V
I found and bought my vintage dream speakers half a year ago🙂
Saw them in an Audio store around 1986 and they were totally unreachable then. I still remember how I put my hand on them, sliding back and forth. I got a pair of L36 which stayed with me for around 10 years.
But now I got them, JBL L240ti😀
Saw them in an Audio store around 1986 and they were totally unreachable then. I still remember how I put my hand on them, sliding back and forth. I got a pair of L36 which stayed with me for around 10 years.
But now I got them, JBL L240ti😀
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In order of best overall..
Klipsch corner horn
Yamaha 1000 M
Altec A-500 (modified)
Altec 605A Duplex
AR-3A
Have owned and or built all of the above. Each shines in it's own way.
Klipsch corner horn
Yamaha 1000 M
Altec A-500 (modified)
Altec 605A Duplex
AR-3A
Have owned and or built all of the above. Each shines in it's own way.
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