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Audio/Video Gear and Systems => The Vintage Circle => Topic started by: Niteshade on 9 Feb 2010, 12:26 pm
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I have a pair of vintage Allied 3-way speakers that astound me! They are around 90db efficient, use sealed cabinets, all drivers have Al-Nico magnets. The walnut veneer is great too. I can't get over how balanced they are and there is a tweeter control in the back that works perfectly. The woofers are 10" and produce a surprising amount of bass. Power rating is around 50 watts.
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JBL L-65 Jubal
My favorite JBL because it doesn't have a horn. Details here.
http://www.vintage-audio.com.ua/en/cat/152/392.html
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Goldmund Dialogue.
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K-Horns, or the big Altec VOTT multicells...:)
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Acoustats :thumb:
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DQ-10s :thumb:
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Bozak, tannoy .
charles
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Dahlquist DQ-10s
:smoke:
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A tossup, Celestion SL600's or Quad 63's.
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Dahlquist DCM-7s . Still sound sweet in my office system. :)
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DQ-10s :thumb:
Yes, DQ-10s get my vote. I wish the Sheriff had caught the b______s that stole mine.
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I'm going to vote for the Large Advent in walnut cabinets. This is the speaker that gave many thousands of listeners a great big taste of the high end for modest bucks. For a few years in the early to mid-1970s it seemed like everyone who loved music had a pair. At the store where I worked, the Dahlquists were the next step up the ladder.
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Good point about the Large Advents. They are what started me on this long, strange trip. I had a pair (walnut) that quickly led to adding a McIntosh 6100 then stacked Advents. Dahlquist DQ-10s came later as I continued slipping helplessly down the slope.
I'm going to vote for the Large Advent in walnut cabinets. This is the speaker that gave many thousands of listeners a great big taste of the high end for modest bucks. For a few years in the early to mid-1970s it seemed like everyone who loved music had a pair. At the store where I worked, the Dahlquists were the next step up the ladder.
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My vote would go to the original DCM Time Windows paired with an RH Labs servo sub-woofer. The big one that looked like a coffee table.
Scotty
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My favourite vintage speaker has to be the Klipshorns.
Dates back to 1946 (and still in production from what I understand)
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KEF 105, originals.
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My first step into the audio world was with a pair of Avid speakers. Can't remember the model # but I enjoyed them.
My next pair were B&O M30 and had a great time with them.
Don
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DLK. I knew Don L. Kliewer and a bunch of guys who were friends who worked there. A Minneapolis company. I still own and use a pair of 1s and 3s and I have had the 4s and a modified pair of 4s.
I got all the parts for a pair of 4s from the company, built a pair of 1" wood cabinets, 14"x14" x4'? made some tubular stands, laid them on the side and put the little 5" mid-range in a very little box and the tweeter screwed to a board on top.
So they each consisted of 2-12" woofers, 5" mid and a tweeter. Now looking back I guess I sort of had a partial open baffle and I did not even know it! I do not know what I did with them, probably sold them!
Lots and still making great memories with DLKs!
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Yamaha NS-1000's. Beryllium madness in 1982. I'll never forget the the DBX rep looking around our showroom and picking them out for a demo. He passed up the JBl's, the ADS's, the Polk's and several others to play Pink Floyd on some great table (can't remember) and a Grace F-9E cartridge through his Dynamic Range Expander. Holy Jesus! It was a panty peeler demo at the time. The Expander was ridiculed for "pumping" but the speakers shined with the abuse.
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Acoustat X's with the direct-drive servo amps. By far, the best sounding electrostats ever built. Throw those transformers away.
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Big powered Altecs from the 70's,
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My once glorious Rogers LS35/A's with dual Satterburg subs...until the divorce :cry:
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Original Quads, KLH 9s, Altec Valencia 846As and Altec bi-flexes. Also love BC1s and LS 3/5A
Harry
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My Coral Model BX-300, picked up in a thrift store for $40 for the pair. Sealed, with a non-removeable
grill.
Frequency Range 50-20,000 c/s
Music Power Input (Continuance) 16 W
Music Power (Peak) 32W
8 Ohm
In my bedroom system:Aiwa Carousel Modded>MSB Dac>Eico ST-40>Corals.
Just a wonderful blend, sweet sound.
Can't find much on them, just figure some Vietnam Vet came back via Japan and brought them home.
Lyndon
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Your favorite vintage speakers...
A pair I've owned for over 20 years....
(http://www.stereophile.com/images/archivesart/M3SIbrochure1.jpg)
Mirage M-3 loudspeakers....old review-1990... (http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/1190mirage/).. :thumb:
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AR LST (Laboratory Standard Transducers).
I heard a pair of these around 1973 driven by a Phase Linear 700 or the like and heard the best reproduction of a drumkit I had heard to that point.
(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=26523)
(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=26524)
Amazingly, all the original drivers are still available! http://tinyurl.com/cxdg8k
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A pair I've owned for over 20 years...
Mirage M-3 loudspeakers....old review-1990... (http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/1190mirage/).. :thumb:
Wow that's a great one.
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Ive had the Mission 770s they were kind of a Spendor clone which woulda been even better.
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bose 901 series 4 - great speaker - wish i still had them!
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/8/9/9/0/2/9/webimg/338817438_tp.jpg
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The old Merlin towers from the late 80's (the one's wrapped in foam) were quite nice. Biggest fault were some cabinet resonance, which could be solved w/ damping material.
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Design Acoustics D-12
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Joow7uBCK_E/SXyzApSKidI/AAAAAAAAAcI/CbgWHYJYXX4/s200/d12.jpg)
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Saw a pair of modified DQ 10's at a dealers I frequented long ago with all the mods I had read about: Factory installed big yellow capacitors, bypassed the high frequency dome and Piezo super tweeter to Panasonic ribbons, and the screens behind the grill cloth cleanly cut away to the mid and tweeter arrays. $250.00 and I didn't buy them. Think they would be fun to play around with today. Acoustat 1+1's with Spectral amps sounded heavenly on choral music.
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The JBL L100's (http://www.audioheritage.org/html/profiles/jbl/l100.htm) I still use in my shop. The speakers started out as L88's and I added the midrange, upgraded the crossover, and braced the cabinet.
Wayne
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To add another JBL to the list, the longer I live with the JBL 4410 Studio Monitors, the more I like 'em. I use these in my wood shop. They are driven by a Rotel 981 amp and the Rotel 970 pre. Though I haven't hooked them up to a tube amp yet, these should be quite a nice match with their impedance only rising to about 25 ohms. These are 91db sensitive. These speakers are super clean sounding and believe it or not, the titanium tweeter doesn't make your ears bleed.
(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=26551)
The other vintage speakers I've become smitten with are the ADS L780/2. I'm on the hunt for a reasonably priced pair. I wouldn't mind stumbling across another pair of the JBLs too.
...and I thought MerRev was a speaker whore :scratch: :lol:
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AR 3As w/ Microstatic tweeters.
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Beveridge electrostats. On orchestral music they are spellbinding.
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I'm going to chime in with another...
The Dayton Wright XG-8 Electrostatic (http://www.dayton-wright.com/XG-8-Mk3.html).
(http://www.dayton-wright.com/M-iSpkr-XG-8-001.GIF)
Peculiar in that it used un-insulated electrodes, sealed the ESL drivers in an airtight chamber and charged the chamber with Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) gas, which is an extremely effective insulator.
The company was short lived, but really amazing sound and some of the best dynamics you'll ever hear in a pure electrostatic.
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I will throw 4 out there:
Large Advents (Owned them)
Dynaco A25 (my brother had a pair)
ADS L1290
ADS L1590
All great speakers, although I have not heard any in a long time, not sure if I would like them as much as I once did.
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My cousin had a really tall tower speaker from RTR (can't remember the model) that were amazing in their day.
Don
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The Polk sda-1 I still have a pair that my father uses with a Marantz receiver
and a sony dvd 3100es
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Here is my vintage pair of Dynaco A25Xls that I use everyday. I had a friend re-cabinet them, correcting some of the goofs, like making them mirror image, removing the front edge lip of the cabinet and reversing the vent (just for appearance), made out of teak. They are very fun.
(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=18450)
Wayner
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Here is my vintage pair of Dynaco A25Xls that I use everyday. I had a friend re-cabinet them, correcting some of the goofs, like making them mirror image, removing the front edge lip of the cabinet and reversing the vent (just for appearance), made out of teak. They are very fun.
(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=18450)
Wayner
I love vintage gear nice job on the speakers I'm going to dig mine out .............Bill
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Very nice! :D
I have a pair of JBL's (like the one posted here earlier on) and the woofers need refoaming. Has anybody ever used butyl instead of foam? I hate the thought of refoaming just to see it deteriorate again. I have a pair of Realistic Mach II's the need surround repair as well.
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Very nice! :D
I have a pair of JBL's (like the one posted here earlier on) and the woofers need refoaming. Has anybody ever used butyl instead of foam? I hate the thought of refoaming just to see it deteriorate again. I have a pair of Realistic Mach II's the need surround repair as well.
I refomed a pair of Mach 1's myself. If I'm not mistaken foam surrounds my be necessary depending on cabinet design
http://stores.ebay.com/GeoAli-Vintage-Stereo-and-More
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Thanks Bill!
And I forgot to mention that they used the ever popular SEAS brand of drivers. Yes, get yours out of the closet and get them going. I also had a nice pair of JBL-L100s, and a pair of huge Polk SDA-SRS 2.3s. Can't keep everything!
Wayner :eyebrows:
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Thanks Bill!
And I forgot to mention that they used the ever popular SEAS brand of drivers. Yes, get yours out of the closet and get them going. I also had a nice pair of JBL-L100s, and a pair of huge Polk SDA-SRS 2.3s. Can't keep everything!
Wayner :eyebrows:
A list of most of my vintage speakers
1. Sansui SP-200
2. Sansui SP-2500
3. Pioneer CS-66
4. Pioneer HPM-40
5. KLH Twenty Four
6. AR 28 BXI
7. Realistic Mach 1
8. The Fisher Model ?
9. Klipsch Heresy
10. Polk SDA-1 / Monitor 7 / Monitor 10
11. Mission Model 70 about to get new foam surrounds
12. AR 2ax's these need tweeters Basket case
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Spendor BC1
LS3/5a
Fried Model R
KEF 103.2
Epos ES-11
Celestion SL6si
Dynaco A35
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Bose 301-II's !
:lol:
:roll:
Just kidding! They were the WORST speakers that I have ever owned!
Had a pair of Klipshorns that my brother "forced" me to buy. :lol: Oh, we used to crank those babies up sooooooo loud! Then he bought his own pair! (This was when I was in high school.)
Good times!
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For me it's a pair of Snell EII from 1982 and a pair of Klipsch Forte 1. The Snells were the inspiration for Audio Note speakers and way cheaper!
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Mine were the first I bought for myself - AR-18s (original Teledyne/AR version). I am not sure how "vintage" those are, from about 1977 or so. Not bad at all for the time, and for $120. They were pretty good stock, but brilliant with Plasti-clay. I gave them to my brother, the foam self-destructed, and he *threw them away*.
Brett
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Sorry no pictures but....back in about 1978 my friend and I each had a pair of ESS Laboratories PS-8's ( 8 in woofer/ 8 in passive radiator and Heil air motion tweeter). We used them in our own systems, but build a combined 'quad' set-up in the living room of the house we shared in college. AWESOME ! :thumb: Always hungered for a pair of ESS AMT's. Alas, the company is long gone, but I used those PS-8's until I purchased my Magnaplanars in 2006. Still have them although I fried the Heils (stupid mistake) !! The ESS were awesome with AVA gear !
Cheers,
Mark
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I really still like my DLK'S 1 1/2'S I use them on my Quad set up, I been listening to some Opotimus 5's that I brought out of storage ,I bought new, and they really sound great with my new Concept reciver 5.5 in my home office, I Been looking for some B&W DM 4 OR 6 they really have a sweet sound.
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I have a sweet spot for Tangent RS-4.
dave
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My brother bought a pair of Musical Fidelity MC-2s about 20 years ago and is still enjoying them as much as ever. A well-designed, simple 2 way with a slightly larger-than-normal box enabling a clean bass range.
(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=27156)
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Leslie DVX-15’s
Innotech D-24’s
EPI 350’s
Design Acoustics D-12’s
Design Acoustics D-8’s
ADS L1230’s
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my favs are my JBL L-96...fairly efficient. I have been driving them tube amps varying from el84, el34, 6L6, 7591, etc...sweet with all. To my ears, perfect balance.
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c207/whitese/RayKoonce6L6s044.jpg)
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The first set of vintage speakers I bought were the Dahlquist DQ-20ii's and I LOVED them! I ended up selling them and now totally regret it. I have recently fallen in love with my new Boston A-150's that I picked up a few weeks ago. They sound fantastic, image beautifully and are so placement friendly :thumb: Here's a couple pics:
(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j217/scott_lisa_day/Bostons/IMGP6250.jpg)
(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j217/scott_lisa_day/Bostons/IMGP6251.jpg)
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The first set of vintage speakers I bought were the Dahlquist DQ-20ii's and I LOVED them! I ended up selling them and now totally regret it. I have recently fallen in love with my new Boston A-150's that I picked up a few weeks ago. They sound fantastic, image beautifully and are so placement friendly :thumb: Here's a couple pics:
Keep your eyes open for a set of A-400s
(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=28782)
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(http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=28784)
Celestion Dittion 66 - BBC Studio monitors driven by a Bryston 3B amp. They handled everything from room shaking rock to harpsichord. Great sound.
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Hey!
So, how old a pair of speaker have to before they can be called "Vintage?" :scratch:
Take care,
Buddy :thumb:
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Vintage for me is anything pre 1980s when cheap, light weight LDFB cabs and drivers with puny magnets were made. The boxes are not even worth the materials to bury your dead pet in! At least, that is what I consider "Vintage."
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My set of B&W801 MKII speakers are over 20 years old and still are in occasional use here. They have my crossover fix of course.
I pull them out from time to time to test our newest electronics designs to make sure we are not designing for good results with just one speaker brand or design.
Every time I hook them up they sound better and better.
Its kind of funny, when they came out, they have a reputation for just eating up amplifier power and many 200 watt per channel amp owners lamented that their amps would not drive them properly. Today I have them hooked up and running on our Ultravalve 35 watt per channel tube amp and the musicality and deep bass impact is simply impressive.
They are keepers for me for sure.
Regards,
Frank Van Alstine
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I still love my Alison CD-9's that I've had for 26 years. I think Roy Alison made some great designs, and I still think that his designing a speaker for where it will be in a room - against a wall or in a corner, makes a lot of sense.
(http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo346/bunnyma357/IMG_1067.jpg)
Jim C
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My new favorite is the Beveridge 2 SW. A friend owns a pair and I listen to them every chance I get.
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My two favorites are the two I am using now - the speakers from my '57 Ampex console and a pair of Dynaco A25s. Wayner, yours are too cool man. I am thinking of getting the tweeters in mine replaced with the current version SEAS tweeters from Madisound and a couple of new caps. All depends on how motivated I get :-) My other favorite (that I never owned) would have been the JBL L100 - *the* classic rock speaker.
Mike
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I've had the large Advents and always wanted a set of JBL L100s.
Nobody mentioned Magnepan or Carver Amazings?
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I have a pair of original M&K S1's. Unfortunately one got knocked over during my last move and the tweeter cabinet physically broke off of the bass cabinet. Eventually I'm going to make some new cabinets for them with some updated crossovers.
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Anyone remember a brand called Essence? There were a bunch of drivers in individual boxes stacked up in a staggered fashion for time alignment. I heard them back in, I think, '83. Driven by all CJ Premier amps and a Sota Sapphire table they were pretty stunning. $8K which was a chunk of change in those days.
Ditto Large Advents.
I had a pair of ADS. Don't remember the model #, but a 6" 2 way w/ a metal grill. Being a moron when in college I put them in my hotrod VW bug. Best damn car audio I've ever heard, but of course the extremes of heat and cold took their toll on the poor speakers.
My high end audio adventures started w/ hearing a pair of the Chartwell version of the BBC monitor in oh....'78 I think.
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I have a few pair of vintage speakers. I been thinking of parting with a few pair.
A staked pair of walnut Large Advents.
Dynaco A25's
Celestion Ditton 15
Celestion Ditton 442 (on loan to my daughter)
Small Advents
Mission 760 (video system)
Regnar/Dahlquist DQ-10's
Magnepan 3.6's (main system)
My favorite vintage speaker:
Rogers LS3/5a in Stirling Broadcast thin wall referance cabinets. (Office)
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Probably unheard of, but I absolutely adore my AERO 903A's
(http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q83/pbidaho/DSCF3535-1.jpg)
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JBL 4412; Celestion A-3