All Pre 1970 Vintage speakers suck! Prove me wrong

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Any vintage speakers that sound as good overall as, say, JM Labs Grand Utopia ?

When were Infinity Servo-Static 1A around?  Tannoy?  (those were my favorites)

@inna 

Any vintage speakers that sound as good overall as, say, JM Labs Grand Utopia ?

That would depend on what you're looking for. If it was dynamics for instance, old horns will beat them. In other ways I'm sure that the Utopias are more faithful to a source.

Roxy54,

I agree.  I do like the Grand Utopias, but at the modest listening levels I prefer, they don’t have the liveliness of great horn systems.  Which is best depends on priorities.  For comparable dollars spent, I can get a custom designed horn system with YL horn and compression driver, and 18” Goodman field coil woofer.  It won’t go as deep or have the same bass impact as the Grand Utopia, but that kind of bass is not a personal priority.  
There are non-horn systems that I also like a lot too, some of them utilizing vintage drivers.  I particularly like the Jensen M10 field coil wide range driver (13” driver) with a simple high pass to a tweeter crossed in way on top.  The system I heard used an RP 302 tweeter, but my dream system would have a Western Electric 597 field coil tweeter.