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In Reply to: Vintage low cost speakers that still fly under radar posted by Neff on February 25, 2012 at 11:14:15:
(borrowed photo, obviously)
The early version, which used the inexpensive but very respectable Wolverine LS-8 twincone fullrange driver as its midrange is the one to seek. Sensitive and very respectable sounding speaker in a small, closed-box package. "Great for tube amps". It was part of a series of similar "Low Resonance Compact Speaker Systems" being marketed by EV - I reckon the others are good, too... but I've only managed to find "Esquires" myself. Later Esquires used a much more generic MR driver.
Here in New England, finding nice EPI, AVID, Boston Acoustics, Advent, KLH, and (to a lesser degree) AR speakers cheap or free is still not difficult. These are all capable of quite enjoyable performance although mainly with mid or even high powered soiled state electronics "for best results".
Heck, there's a cosmetically very nice pair of Advent Legacy IIs from the swap pile at our town dump sitting in my front hall even as I type this :-P I previously had a cosmetically-not-so-nice pair that I refoamed and gave away. They sounded pretty decent (despite being post-Kloss "Andvent" products - Recoton-era, I think), so I didn't hesitate to pick up the current pair when they showed up.
For reference, this is an example of the earlier pair pre and post-refoam.
Of course, careful what one wishes for! I found a pair of AR-3s at the dump, years ago. They were in TERRIBLE condition; but they sounded just fine. Well, the price WAS right.
all the best,
mrh
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