Anyone here using vintage speakers?


I am mostly a lurker and reader here and see very little conversation about vintage speakers (pre 1985). I have owned Altec 604's for about a year now and love the hell out of them. Just wondered if there are other vintage users in this crowd?
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I still use a pair of Rectilinear III floor standing full range speakers in a secondary system. I bought them in the early 70s and they still sound good after all these years.
Rectilinear III, Ohm C2, AR3a, JBL LE14C, JBL Studio Master 200B, ElectroVoice, Jensen G610 Triaxial, KLH 5, and this morning I just picked up a pair of Janszen Z-600s that need 2 woofers and a tweeter. Yes, they all get some use now and then. My wife says I have too many!! (You didn't ask about a current reference system, so I won't mention one.)
They all have positives and negatives. I find the current offerings of speakers have less negatives.
Sometimes I really miss my old ESS AMT's.
May still be the best top end I have ever heard.
Bass was thunderous @ 400 wpc (dual mono Carvers) & my neighbors really loved me back then.
If I had the room - I would find another pair, just for old time's sake.
Yes I use them I have 4 pairs older than 1985 I can think of. Posted a thread a while back got a lot of responses. What did you want to chat about? Everyone likes to talk about whatever the latest thing is. My speakers are any where between 47 years and a few months old. I just bought more in fact but haven't dated them yet.