Is it all worth it?

It's not nostalgia.   I 
aways thought these pretty good for the size and cost but no special attachment. 

But they are very involving speakers and very easy on the ear as long as you don't push them too hard.    It would make me question spending up to $1000 or so for a new pair of small monitors.  Good quality new small monitors these days are very small. 

It it just reinforces to me that very good sound for a music lover need not cost a fortune these days.  Some might actually prefer the sound of these to other popular modern contenders.   You just never know. 

They knew how to make speakers a long time ago, so it's no surprise that you like those monitors.  I remember the old 15" Altec coaxial studio monitors were great, as were the old JBL Paragons and others.  One of the reasons I like my Trenner & Friedl speakers is because they remind me of the older speakers I grew up with.  Nostalgic?  Who knows.  They sound good and I leave it at that.  

The sunroom they are in is12x12 has Windows on three sides and a tile floor and cathedral ceiling and is very lively. I've found that less in there (smaller speakers) works best.    The Bostons also seem to have good dispersion and fill the room with sound nicely.   Room size and acoustics largely dictate how much speaker is needed to fill it.   Plus I am running about 8K of amplification into them so they are well fed.    That's probably mostly why they sound similar but better than I remember in regards to detail soundstage and imaging. 

Mapman,

i agree with you. I don't have very expensive gear, maybe 8-10k retail in my system. But I enjoy a pair of Silverline Minuets in my bedroom, or Ohm Walsh 2 just fine.

Glad you are enjoying your speakers!

Regards,

gary

Mapman, I can relate to your impressions...  Due to age, 'changing fortunes', and the price of 'high end' components becoming stratospheric and subtle to the point of near mania, I walked away from it for a time.  I'd look at impressive and/or elegant displays of other's collections with the regard that I hold for other societal 'bling'....exotic cars, exotic  'trophy wives', esoteric golf clubs made of unobtainium (I don't play, BTB), and other 'high maintenance' objects of desire.  And Yes, It Is All About The Music.  What we listen to, what makes your neurons fire, the memories and thoughts and emotions that stir.  Loud, soft, fast, slow, the drive of the kick drum, the nuance of a piano well stirred....

How we 'get there' or have done so isn't as important as the arrival. 

I have a polyglot of equipment that does what it do well enough for Me. *S*  Others may sniff, but I don't need nor desire an attachment to mere devices, other than my DIY project.  I look at it the way some relate to their garden....something to grow and make bloom for my personal satisfaction.  They're not perfect.  They may never be 'perfect', but I've found more involvement in the pursuit of 'growing' them then I've ever had previously in the 'audio hobby' realm....

Which, truthfully, does go to show ya' that we all have our of levels of 'mania'. *L*  I've been doing the improbable for so long with so little that now I'm trying to do the impossible with nothing.  And that has it's own reward.  Flawed as they are, I can stop you in your tracks.
When I can get a jaw to drop, stop talking, and make someone Really Listen...
I'll know I've accomplished my goal, vague as it may seem..

To each, his or her own...  Be happy.  Enjoy where you are.  It's all very transitory anyway, so get into the transit of it all. ;)