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Vintage speaker suggestions

Set up: 2 McIntosh Mc2120 solid state amps, C-26 pre amp, and MAC-1700 receiver.  Not changing any components other than speakers.  I have a pair of Pioneer CS 99-As and 2 pairs of Original Large Advents, neither sounded bad, but I think I could do better.  Trying to spend around 1000 or less and keep it from the same era more or less. 
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shkong78
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If you have big space, Altec A7 rocks.

https://youtu.be/Dt5M4Kg0qRM

https://youtu.be/V51SekzxIhc

If you have medium space, Altec 19 may work well.
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fond memories come back when thinking about the original (wonderful) epos es14 and celestion sl6 - had them in college and working just after

they had the metal dome tweeters that could ring a plenty (was awful when the first cdp’s came out) but with a good record player - i remember my micro seiki dd40 with a sonus blue and microacoustic cart - the slightly rolled off vinyl sounded very sweet, very right with those tweets, and the midrange was just lovely!
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I have fond memories of my old Fischer xp95c speakers I bought at venture in 1982, big a$$ 15’’ woofer, 2 x 5’’ cloth mid, 3’’ cloth tweeter and tone controls on the front. $250 in texas dollars would probably translate $1500 now.
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