New speakers today are compact, beautiful to look at (wife friendly) handle lots o power,built w/ close tolerances, ect,ect, blah,blah,blah.... It doesnt mean IMO that they are "better" than the vintage speakers. Oh yea, they handle more power, easy to bi-amp, tri- amp ect... but....I use JBL 4345's paired w/ modded Khorns, (alk xtreme slope xovers, alk trachorn, beyma tweeter, solid silver cardas wiring) 2 MC2000's driving Khorns, 1 MC 352 JBL's, and I would put this up to MOST ANY of new speakers out there! Of course Its NOT just ME sayin how great this sounds but others who spent mucho on the newest greatest.... It definetly is a BIG footprint but, I think it would cost alot more to get a "modern" design....
