I recently purchase of a Pair of large Advent loudspeakers from the 70's on a whim. They had been professionally refoamed and the speakers look very nice for 20+ yeasr. I hooked them up to my Antique Sound labs monoblocks of only 20 WPC and was awed by the really nice musical sound. Not state of the art, but they do have the very guts of the music. I had thought in 20 years much progress was made in Speaker technology, but I hadn't realized how much fun has also been lost in these designs.
Pleasant surprises, what have you run across?
Not a biggie, but the other day I am working on a pair of speakers(Infinity 2.5, new surrounds) and while having them disconnected from my main system, I hooked up a pair of Epi M50's to it because it was quick and so I could have music during the repair. Now of course I had heard them before, used them in other rooms, etc. But I was just tremendously surprised again about how good an inexpensive(yes cheap)speaker could sound when hooked up to some decent gear(Perreaux SM2/3150,Elite DV 09, Scott 350B). Then I got to thinking about other pleasant surprises like the 1st Sonus Blue label, 1st real sound system,an AR System with AR 2AX's, 1st Advents,1st Stereo 70(about 1980), 1st Scott 350B(just recently) and some others. And now I wonder if any of the rest of you would share that experience, be interesting to read.