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 utilize Western Electric 713b drivers and a Western Electric 12025 horn in my speaker system.  The 713b's are probably from the early 1940's.  To me, they are among the finest compression drivers ever made.

I like a number of modern wide range drivers, like the AER BD series, the Cube Audio Nenuphar driver, and various Voxativ drivers, Songer field coil driver, etc.  But, I would not dismiss some very much older wide range drivers.  The Jensen/ERP M10 field coil driver is a terrific sounding driver that competes with any of the modern drivers I've heard and it comes from the 1940's.

I bought my Altec 604-8G's when I was 18. I am now 66. Everything else has changed but the Altec's are still here. Bill @ GPA did his magic on them a few years ago and I finally had some custom 620 cabinets built. 1.5 watts of SET 45 tube amps and the sound is spectacular. I have listened to many systems over my years and still nothing moves me as much as these things.