Sorry to resurrect an old thread but after listening to a pair of these all day I felt I had to weigh in on then. I’ve had this pair of 110Ms sitting in the basement for a few years now. I picked them up with a Sony receiver but was never impressed with the speakers.
Some background:
My family was over for the holidays and my nephew showed an interest in my vinyl collection. I sent him home with a Denon DP37F table (Grado black cartridge) an 80’s HK preamplifier, my 41HZ T-AMP (needed glasses after all that smd soldering), and some vinyl. He called me last night and told me how much he was enjoying the turntable and I figured he needed some decent speakers. He is currently using some Logitech speakers.
This morning I pulled the EPIs out, replaced the 10uf caps, and shorted the L pad. I also tweaked a Rat Shack $15 Accurian amp I had laying around figuring the EPIs will need a little more power than the T-Amp. I have been playing these speakers all day and they really sound nice. With the old caps the EPIs sounded lifeless. Now they sound really good. My nephew is going off to college next year and I suspect these speakers will be going with. I’ll bet decent vintage speakers spend a lot of years at school.