More love for the Brits. Celestion SL600 and Epos ES11 or 14. These are still really really good. Besides solid engineering, the designers actually listened to their product and made tweaks before releasing the product. Why, it's brilliant!
Vintage speaker suggestions
Set up: 2 McIntosh Mc2120 solid state amps, C-26 pre amp, and MAC-1700 receiver. Not changing any components other than speakers. I have a pair of Pioneer CS 99-As and 2 pairs of Original Large Advents, neither sounded bad, but I think I could do better. Trying to spend around 1000 or less and keep it from the same era more or less.