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A lot of HT forums warn against using vintage speakers in a HT system, but why?
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It's called timbre matching. While not impossible, it would be at least very difficult to find at least three more speakers for surround use (one center and a pair of left and right surrounds) that would match the sound of a vintage stereo pair that I presume you would aspire to use as your left and right front speakers.
With cars we typically refer to those 25 years old or older. My Thiel CS3s are now over 25 years old and are still operating fine as fronts. About 7 years ago I added Thiel PowerPoint rears and a PowerPlane center. The timbre matching is excellent. Problem solved. Many manufacturers who have remained in business over a few decades should be able to maintain their house sound over the years. The good ones do.
Maybe I'm just old, but I don't consider 25 year old automobiles or audio gear vintage. Forty years + is more like it.
"Many manufacturers who have remained in business over a few decades should be able to maintain their house sound over the years. The good ones do."
True, but I suspect that at least as many manufacturers have changed course, hired new design teams, discontinued model lineups and replaced them with totally different ones, been bought and sold several times, gone out of business and been resurrected in a different form but under the same name, etc. over "a few decades" also.
Unfortunately, I suspect that my model is a more accurate one than the one that you illustrate in your post. Not that I'm happy about it.
I have a friend that has four Klipschorns, and a Heresy for center channel. He originally bought the four 'horns for a quad system (using a pair of Mcintosh stereo amps & a Marantz quad decoder) back in the seventies. He told me he was delighted to hook up the rear pair again (and add the Heresy)when Dolby surround came about in the eighties! It's quite an impressive system that works well for 2,3,4, or 5 channel. 'Kinda makes me miss my old quad AR3s & Bozak delay system I had in collage.
The issue with using vintage speakers in a HT system is matching them to the rest of the speakers. This hasn't stopped me from using a pair of Dahlquist DQ-M9C's in the Family Room HT, along with un-matched Center and Rear speakers. The result is somewhat muddy dialogue. Someday I'd like to have a matching speaker system for the HT, but in the meantime, 90%+ of my listening is vintage 2-Channel. As you can see, I have my priorities.
Thorens TD150 MkII/TP13A/Denon DL160
NAD C525BEE
Carver CT-7 or C-1
Carver M500t
Dahlquist DQ20s
Dahlquist DQ20. How do they sound?
"...Dahlquist DQ20. How do they sound? ..."
They like LOTS of power and "breathing" room and, when set up properly, they are detailed and image amazingly well. Voices and instruments sound very natural to me, to the point that I have no need to use the tone control circuit at all (my Carver Pre's have the ability to completely bypass the TC Circuit, not just defeat it). They will, however, shake the house and rattle the windows...when I'm in the mood.
As an example, one of my favorite tunes for showing off the system is Lyle Lovett/Joshua, Judges, Ruth/She's Already Made Up Her Mind. Each bass note hits me in the chest like a punch. The acoustic guitar licks float a little to the right of center, about 5 ft in the air, and the intensity of his strumming across each string is readily apparent.
For a straight 2-Channel, Solid State system I don't think there is a better speaker for under $10-15k.
Hope this answers your question.
Thorens TD150 MkII/TP13A/Denon DL160
NAD C525BEE
Carver CT-Seven or C-1
Carver M500t
Dahlquist DQ20s
I use a pair of BIC Formula 6s that I bought new in 1972 and I miss very little of value--certainly not enough to spend what would be necessary to improve the sound significantly. If I want good sound, I have an excellent stereo system.
it's something else entirely. You should know that by now.
Oz
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"A lot of HT forums warn against using vintage speakers in a HT system, but why?"
If what you say is true, what harm would it have been to ask them?
I suspect there could be concern about LFE blowing out an older speaker, but a sub should handle that. I recently replaced a pair of KEF R104/2s for music and HT with a pair of R107/2s, both '90s vintage. The mains are crossed at 40 Hz for HT to a pair of Velodyne HGS-15s with SMS-1 management.
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I've never heard that... maybe they are worried about speaker shielding? Though, now that most people are using flat screens, magnetic shielding isn't even an issue any more. As long as the speakers fit, I don't see any reason not to use them for home theater. I use KEF 107s in my living room system for audio, and video. I used to have a 5.1 system consisting of 5 Quad ESL63s, and an Entech sub... it was a fantastic HT system, but it took too much room for my new digs.
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -HST
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