In Reply to: I would take a pass on the Santanas............. posted by viridian on October 1, 2016 at 16:33:19:
The Santana is -- not great.
If your heart is, for some reason, set on Santanas, you should be able to find a pair for far less than $500 (assuming you're in the Continental US).
That being said, in the interest of disclosure (and as you probably know) there were two flavors of Santana: The original version (879A) with the Altec "Biflex" extended range 'woofer' and an Altec cone tweetwer, and the later Santana II with a more ordinary (albeit probably still genuine Altec production?) woofer. The former seems to be more desirable (thus more expensive) than the latter, but either is pretty forgettable up against the "real" Altecs.
just my two cents, of course.
See my post above ;-)
all the best,
mrh
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- FWIW, I concur, in spades... - mhardy6647 19:01:44 10/01/16 (0)