Have owned JBL, 4311 and agree, thy are fabulous with punch and authority. EV Centurion Corner Horms - just sound like music. Playing a set of '63 Tannoy, Belvedere now and they are sublime; truly my wheelhouse. 15" Reds are amazing in that volume cabinet. C'mon on the ESL 57s are spooky good. All of these played with vintage Mac... not sure what you're looking for.
All Pre 1970 Vintage speakers suck! Prove me wrong
Have tried many vintage speakers.
My conclusion: All pre-1970 vintage speakers suck. Well-made but crappy sound.
Used with both vintage amps and modern.
I do like many vintage amps such as Radio Craftsmen RC-500, Marantz tube, Scott tube, Heath W5, Lafayette and Pilot tube.
But back to pre-1970 speakers:
No bass, harsh, or honky mids and no highs. Not musical or listenable to me.
Tried many including Acoustic Research AR-3a, 2Ax, etc. The entire AR product line. Also Klipsch Horn, Large EVs. Altec VOTT. Pioneer CS-88 and 99.
Nothing pre 1970 is even close to the better modern speakers.
I challenge you: Prove me wrong.
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There are a bunch of people in the audiophile forums on Facebook that get real upset when you nay-say something about Radio Shack garbage or Pioneer/Kenwood/Sansui speakers with 8 cheap drivers splashed willy-nilly across the front (and/or rear) baffle. "Vintage" they call them. I call them junk. As for older speakers, the Dynaco A-25 had the most natural midrange going, but lacked highs and lows. I replaced them with Advents and the lovely mids were gone, but some highs were back along with a muddy bass. I remember being at Harvey Sound in White Plains, hearing what a thought was a real, live cello playing in another room. Looking in I found it was a pair of Rectilinear 3s. Very impressive at the time. |
I don't know how old you are. 1970's was my "high school" era, I lived thru when you are speaking. Writing, I will agree with you as All but a few were of today "Audiophile" standards. ESL speakers as commented above I still highly regarded now. Speaker design and materials have advanced tremendously. Now we have internet. Audiophile dedicated magazines. Reviews. Youtube. We had brick and mortar audio stores. Many as a side offering to their main business. TV repair and stereo shop. Best Buy! A small corner of Audio. What they had was what we were exposed to. For a long time, The Voice of the Theatre speaker was the voice of the theatre. When you went to see a movie, that was what you were probably listening to. |
@waytoomuchstuff thankfully it was installed behind the screen and.. ahem.. out of range. 😂 @larryi thank you, I plan on looking them up. Great suggestion. |
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