All Pre 1970 Vintage speakers suck! Prove me wrong

True, a whole bunch of them were goofball designs...

There are MANY good modern speakers that do almost everything well.  I like the top end Rockport speakers, Arion Acoustic planar magnetics, Maggies of all sort, and a lot of other modern designs.  But, almost all of them are dynamically a touch lifeless at low volume and do not engage my interest in the same way high efficiency systems, particularly horn systems do.  Is it a fault of the speaker or the kinds of amps needed to power such speakers?  The amps I really like are low power amps, particularly low power tube amps.  It doesn’t really matter which is to “blame.”

There are many modern systems that are high efficiency that I do like, but they are not commonly found.  I will mention a few I really like: Charney Audio Companion with AER driver (they come with several alternative); Cube Audio Nenuphar Basis (wide range driver system with a built in powered woofer); Songer Audio with field coil wide range drivers (both the single driver and two-way system); Audio Note AN-E.

Please don’t get drawn into this subjective nonsense. 
Any ice cream that isn’t vanilla sucks -prove me wrong!

As I believe this post was started tongue in cheek, the only thing I will add is that equipment cannot be compared in the parameters of generation. My Pioneer HPM speakers in 1978 brought me more musical joy then than I can even hope for out of my way better speakers now. Context and perspective should always be considered. I still have the HPM's and a pair of Pioneer CS888A's that sound awesome. 

The oldest speakers that I have owned are 1972 vintage Large Advents. I agree with the previous post except that the “custom” real wood veneer cabinets were not too bad looking. I have owned many pair since the mid 70’s and still find them to be quite good. one pair were restored/modified by Bill Legall from Millersound. He called the mods his “secret sauce.” They were remarkable! I also have enjoyed several pair of vintage Sansui speakers from the same era. They were made by Coral.inJapan and were quite good, especially the Alnico models.

I have also been fortunate enough to have heard the Deja Vu Western Electric builds in their VA showroom. I am so thankful that Vu offered to show them to me. By far the best sound I have heard in a showroom demo. They were powered by vintage Western Electric amplifiers (from the 30’s) which Deja Vu also rebuilds.