I grew up in the 80s with a pair of Allison Acoustics bookshelf speakers, that I only got rid of a few years ago. I would imagine they are these (or equivalent to these):

http://www.allisonacoustics.com/pb8-2.html

but I don't really remember. I do remember that the speakers were damaged when I tried to sell them and the consignment store opened up the grill to see how they were blown. Though they still worked, I had decided to get rid of them and that my bose wave radio actually sounded better than those speakers and my onkyo receiver.

So my question is this...were those good speakers? Is Allison Acoustics a good company? Does it make sense that my bose wave radio sounded better than those two damaged speakers? (I don't remember hearing any distortion because of the damage...just that the bose sounded better.)

Now that I'm starting to be more discriminating, I'm curious about those speakers....