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looking for some good but period appropriate speakers for my 486 system, my most used and beloved one, though I love all my vintage machines.

question is, are these any good?

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-LAB...645156?hash=item25bc949964:g:fo8AAOSwFL9Trhv9

These are candidates too:

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-Com...045897?hash=item1caa0cbd49:g:w6AAAOSw75xa6lp9

Third Candidates:

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Altec-Lansi...m=232720927950&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

and candidate #4:

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-speakers-he...rs/1248030258?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true
 
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Probably about average for the period.

Too bad you're across the border--I've got a couple that are entirely period-correct and you can have them for shipping. "MIDI Pro" brand with a label on the back with outrageously inflated specs (e.g. 80W, 25-25KHz response, etc.)

There were two types of speakers in use then--the amplified pair, like you show and the un-amplified type for sound cards with speaker outputs. I've got a pair of "Polk Audio" speakers that apparently attach to the side of a CRT monitor that are of the un-amplified type.

Heck, I'm still using a pair of Jensen-branded amplified speakers that I got from the OnSale auction site 20 years ago. A good set.
 
I have these two:

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One is always limited by the diameter at the low end. Most any single cone speaker will either have high frequency roll off or narrow beaming of the high frequencies. Not that I would notice it that much at 70 years.
I've not seen anything connected to a computer that I'd call hifi.
Dwight
 
Currently I'm using the AR Studio Partners AV-8. 8" woofers 1 1/4" tweeters and have their own amplifier built in. I always listen to music on my computer either with MP3 or FLAC encoding or off of YouTube.
This is the big brother (and much better sounding) to the AR Powered Partner 570 I mentioned earlier.

You can get close to High Fidelity from these speakers and a good sound card.

Of course you can also do the home theater thing with an external surround sound amp and speakers.

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Chuckster_in_Jax said:
Currently I'm using the AR Studio Partners AV-8. 8" woofers 1 1/4" tweeters and have their own amplifier built in. I always listen to music on my computer either with MP3 or FLAC encoding or off of YouTube.
This is the big brother (and much better sounding) to the AR Powered Partner 570 I mentioned earlier.

You can get close to High Fidelity from these speakers and a good sound card.

Of course you can also do the home theater thing with an external surround sound amp and speakers.

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There was a company that sells kits for the foam ring replacement of acoustic suspension speakers. Check in the hifi magazines.
I reworked mine a number of years ago.
Dwight
 
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