Sound quality of Newer versus Older speakers

My Mission Cyrus 781 at 50 bucks used (1989) are so good, that in spite of their limitations, i like them more than most speakers i have listen to but BECAUSE my room is under control....Before my acoustic control their sound was not so great...i was thinking to an upgrade then... 😁

These vintage speakers, British, were neutral but leaning toward a warm sound, they present details but not with harshness and no microscopic details floating and detached from the sound flow like very high resolution speakers which in almost any room are fatiguing... For someone listening loud music a few minutes it is spectacular.... But i listen music for 5 hours in a row sometimes more in a day.... I forget to say that in good acoustical settings their bass is so good that i dont need a sub woofer at all... I own one disconnected from day one … 😁 they are not so big but fill my room completely 3-d....

Name me a better speakers for 50 bucks or under 2000 dollars? Good luck.....Then anybody speaking against vintage speakers is rich in money or dont know what a good speaker is designed for....

Most people think they have  listened to their speakers for years, they will die never knowing that they have listened to their room all along...

This truth is unbelievable especially for those who already think that their room is ok....But all small room need not only passive treatment but more importantly active controls to help the speakers to work at his peak unimpeded....

I repeat that for the newcomers who will think about it.... For the others it is too late and unbelievable anyway...

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Newer, by far.  Cone materials are far superior, even more so at the lower end of the spectrum. Ditto techniques for reducing varying inductance effects.  Better capacitors.  Far less cabinet resonances. More consistent dispersion. 

Newer, by far. Cone materials are far superior, even more so at the lower end of the spectrum. Ditto techniques for reducing varying inductance effects. Better capacitors. Far less cabinet resonances. More consistent dispersion.

all you say is true...however, if behind all that tech you don't put a engineer with an exceptionally good hearing and musical culture, the result is a round Zero. This is what happens to many companies...they focus on tech specs, even the wrong ones probably, aggressive marketing and fancy design. For those companies sound quality seems the last priority. In my very limited audiophile experience i know that dynaudio is one of them. They changed their priorities in 2016. In fact there are almost no happy contour 60 owners around. It's full of dynaudio fans which praised the old product lines and which agree the new product lines are a disaster. Despite better materials, better capacitors, better cabinet design (sure??? My contour 60 sounds like a wooden box emitting sound inside out). If you have a 10K budget for a speaker you can get crazy stuff in the used market.
 

It's like with everything else, like a super modern kitchen with a crappy cook, a F1 car with a crappy driver, 100mpx camera with a stupid photographer and so on. Technology has to be driven...it doesn't drives itself. Big companies are often driven by financial targets and less y passion and commitment.