Vintage Speaker Choice

Many of the Vintage "L" line of JBL like  L19, L26, L40, L50 are all good. The Celestion Ditton 33, 44, even 66 are around at that price sometimes. Recapping these provides huge gains and is easy to do. IMF TLS 50's are very good too but should also recap. 

Obviously many more but there is a few in the price range :I am sure you would enjoy.

Not to derail the thread but  I can't resist a comment. I haven't heard a new $400 speaker that is close to these  "Ancient history" speakers. 

Dynaco A25 !!
Dahlquist DQ10's !!!

You are kidding, right?  Both are horrible speakers, but to each his or her own.  Get whichever one sounds "good" to you, I guess.

Want some decent vintage box speakers?

Try Fulton 80 or 100 for less money and actually some semblance of accuracy of reproduced sound.

Vintage decent speakers? ANY Magnepan that is still working.

I recently purchased a power strip by Maze on eBay for $100 including shipping. It looks very well made and works fine.  I've since read that the Furman power strips are excellent.  Did I make a mistake? Thanks.  Doug

I've always had a certain fondness for Large Advents - had a pair most of the way through college, and later added a second pair. Great sound with the infamous stacked setup, to be sure.

But much as I liked them, the Advents eventually made way for a pair of Infinity 2000A's. These had 12" woofers, about 6" midranges, and four rectangular RTR electrostatic tweeter panels mounted at varying angles in an area open to the front and rear... one of the earlier 'direct/reflecting' designs. The 12" woofer delivered very solid bass (no sub needed), but the electrostats were the 'secret sauce' for a very smooth upper range all the way to at least 20k. I still remember them fondly as one of my all-time favorite speakers. The 2000A was kind of a 'cult classic' - one of the true 'sleepers' of the era for the price. I bought mine very slightly used for about $250, and they literally blew away speakers selling for many times that amount.

Unfortunately, one of mine was stolen out of the moving van during a relocation, so today I have only one half of the pair (why would anyone steal just ONE speaker?) I'd love to grab another pair someday (there's a pair in very nice shape currently offered on eBay for $799), just to see if they still impress me as much as they did back in the early '70s.