Recommendations for Vintage Speakers

jtgofish..

I wish I could have  spent more time with them or had a rep drop them by our store to listen to them a few days.. The other speaker I was curious about listening to was the Linn Isobarik.

I should mention that while you can go balls-out-crazy building exotic versions of high-performance Altec's, you can also get great results at affordable prices too. 

Take for example the Altec A7 Voice of the Theatre loudspeakers, which you can get a beautifully restored pair for around $3500 USD from Gary Fischer, and then have Pete Riggle build a pair of his inexpensive Hiraga-style crossovers for them (around $1000 USD if I remember correctly).

The combination will crush any of the current "high-end" speakers I've heard anywhere near the price, or double the price for that matter, in terms of musicality and the sheer fun factor of their live-like presence, not to mention the personal satisfaction of owning a classic pair of loudspeakers.