vintage versus modern speakers


Since I have had so many excellent insights and answers to my question, here is the second chapter of my "free" education: are great vintage speakers (Infiniti, JBL,Sansui, Sony, etc..) from the seventies better sounding than what is available now? the X factor in that equation is the cost, since my speaker budget is only 1500$ for two speakers.

Ladies and Gentlemen, your advice will be read and taken into consideration.
Thank you.
rockanroller

Showing 1 response by mofimadness

I agree with Mapman to a point.

The JBL L100 Century was and is still one of the best rock-
n-roll speakers ever made, if they're in good shape.

The Infinity Gamma, Beta, Sigma, some of the RS series are
still very good, again, if in good shape. One of the only
speakers I've ever regretted selling out of the hundreds of
speakers I've owned were my Betas. I still kick myself in
the ass every so often to remind me of what a dip shit I was
for selling them.

So it really depends on the speaker model and the condition,
but for the most part, today's speakers are better.