I've owned several vintage speakers over the years- old kefs, spendor (BC1, SP1), polk audio (monitor 5, 7, 10b), klipsch, rogers, JBL (L-65) and others, dating from the 70's to the 90's (I suppose early 90's may be considered as 'vintage').
Some were better than others, but I don't recall any of them sounding as clean as I'm used to from modern speakers. Some were pretty good (like the jbl L-65) and some were very disappointing (like the BC1).
Do you know of any vintage speakers that really hold up, on objective grounds, against well engineered modern speakers?
My (subjective) guess is that drivers (Especially tweeters) came a very long way since the 70's, and kinda stayed in place since the late 90's. But I may be wrong. What say you?
Some were better than others, but I don't recall any of them sounding as clean as I'm used to from modern speakers. Some were pretty good (like the jbl L-65) and some were very disappointing (like the BC1).
Do you know of any vintage speakers that really hold up, on objective grounds, against well engineered modern speakers?
My (subjective) guess is that drivers (Especially tweeters) came a very long way since the 70's, and kinda stayed in place since the late 90's. But I may be wrong. What say you?