Classic speakers to hunt down used

Hi Gonglee3:

Will you be using these speakers in your gym system? If so, be careful that you get speakers rated at 8 ohms and not 4 ohms. The Marantz 2270 was a bit of an anomaly, in that it put out 70 wpc into 8 ohms, but only 46 wpc into 4 ohms. Very popular receiver though.

To read up on classic speakers, check out the Classic Speakers web site .

I know the most about and have owned a number of Acoustic Research speakers over the years. My favorite was the AR-5 a 3 way design with a 10 inch woofer. I use a modern era design (circa 1995) in the AR 302 in my main system. Other goodies were the AR3 & AR4 from the 60's & 70's and the AR 9 from the 80's.

Regards, Rich

Mitch:

Accepting that there is a distinction between classic and vintage, you're talking at least 25 years to be considered vintage.

For audio I would say the vintage eras are:

hifi components: primarily made in USA (up to 1968); first Japanese wave (1968 to mid 1970's); second Japanese wave (mid to late 1970's); everything else

speakers:

60's; 70's; everything else

Regards, Rich