JBL 4301b Control Monitors. Price is right, the look is definitely right, and the woofers have been professionally re-foamed. Disclaimer: I have no personal stake in this listing; it just looked like a good fit, and nice-looking too. JBL's brightly colored foam grille coverings of the '70s are soooo retro cool. |
The ADS L710 series II. 1). beautiful... walnut with radiused (sp?)corners, bronzed metal grills, and black metal stands. high WAF. (not married, but, if she judged me by my speakers, would be). 2). tweeters are protected by fuse 3). woofers don't have those rotting foam rings, 4). they weigh a bit, but not too large in size, 5). they sound very, very good... your ears may prefer the silk dome to aluminum, esp. in today's digital world, and the eyes- walnut to black vinyl mdf. 6). they keep going up in value. As a less expensive alternative, the B&O S-45, for similar reasons... but with square corners, and rosewood. that being said, to confuse you further, i've listened to a pair of low end B&W bookshelves, black mdf, aluminum tweeter- and they sounded great. |
totally go vintage, you're young and have many years to develop the disease of over-intellectualizing "audiophilia nervosa" and/or "mmtb syndrome." just have fun for now. i had a PMA-777 under my arm when i came home from the navy back in the 80s. like johnk said, altecs are nice, as are electro-voice and some heathkit speakers (using jensen drivers). many have accordion surrounds that won't rot, and will blast the dorm with ease. check out thrift stores. another aspect of using vintage is you don't feed into the consumer mentality of perpetually disposable goods. |
