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Mancave help

I'm considering setting up a vacant room in my house as a 2 channel mancave. I dont really have a budget, meaning ( no money). I plan on using mostly equipment I have laying around. such as My Dynaco ST70 rebuilt amp, Arcam dv27 dvd player as a cd player, torn between my Adcom gtp-450, or my Dynaco pas 3 preamp,and a old Kenwood TT. I also have a Technics se/su 9600 amp and preamp, that need to be fixed. The speakers I'm using now in my bedroom with the st 70, are a pair Advent baby II. I was in a pawn shop the other day and ran across a pair Swans Divas 5.1 for $250. not knowing anything about them, I put them on layaway just to hold them till I got some info on them. my question is, does anyone know anything about these speakers, and if so, would they make a nice addition to the set-up I'm considering using? My main set-up consist of Apogee centaurs, Emotiva USP1 pre ERC1 cd player, NAD 2600 amp, Marantz 2120 Tuner, and the Kenwood TT I'm going to move to my mancave.
ddan6815
ddan6815 OP
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Thank you for your in depth response. As you can possibly tell Im not very technically inclined. I'm actually starting to think that maybe a vintage type speaker may also be a good option . Right now my ST70 is used with my baby advent, and I love the sound, If I could get this type sound on a larger scale, would be great. I'm also looking at some KLH VIRTUOSO 62T. Anyone familiar with those?
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ivan_nosnibor
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Ooops! My bad if I got carried away (I've done it before, Lol). Dispense with the above if you like and I'll just say that the Divas at least *LOOK* like a steal, to me anyway. As for vintage speakers, that's not really my thing so I'd be outta my element there...loosely familiar with Advent and their good reputation, but not familiar with the baby. I can recall seeing threads though about tube amps and reasonably price vintage speakers - audiocircle, audiokarma etc...possibly here if you can find them. If there's no luck in this thread for you, you may want to do a little stalking on those threads and just dive in and ask at some point. Regards
ddan6815 OP
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Thanks Ivan,for your needed input, and thanks to the others that made it easy for me to make a decision,based on not having to read thru several opinions of others, I made an opinion based on my own gut feeling and the little knowledge I have on speaker specs.I talked the guy at the pawn shop into giving me a couple hours to take the speakers home and try them out, with the option to return them if I didn't like them.The only problem is, they never made it to my mancave. They are still hooked up to my main system in the family room. and my Apogee Centaurs are in the closet.My wife took one look at the speakers fell in love with them. I began to listen to them playing a few of my favorite CD's and we both were in love. Need I say more?
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