Does anyone like vintage speakers?

When did your "golden age" of HiFi occur? I must have missed it.

Stuff, old or new, sounds good or not depending of how well it was designed and built in the first place and how well it interfaces with todays equipment. Speaker's have improved greatly since the late 70's - why would you want to hear old or new electronics using them?

What is, IMHO, interesting is that some of the old electronics when brought up to date parts wise can sound dammed good when coupled with quality modern speakers.

Thats true,and we cant really create the muscle car era anymore either,but I see people trying without the car.Somethings,especially nostalgia cant be bought,but can be thought,hey,its the weekend! Cheers men[and women] Bob

Been using vintage speakers/drivers for the past 3 years.

Other than the two pairs listed with my system I own/have owned the following vintage drivers...

-R&A (Reproducer & Amplifier, UK) 12" full-range drivers
-Foster (early Fostex, Japan) full-range drivers
-Stephens Tru-sonic, USA 15" coaxials/8 cell horn tweeters
-Herald (UK) 8" full range drivers
-various other rebadged Foster/Coral full range drivers

My favorite is the Stephens Tru-sonic 80FR.

Also familiar with vintage Lowther and Klipsch front/back horn speakers, though it's been 20+ years since I've listened to any (with the exception of Chorus II's I borrowed 3-4 years ago).

I prefer modern line/phono sections, but don't have a problem listening to some of the vintage/older stuff.

I sometimes use a vintage Pilot 232 push/pull EL84 tube power amplifier from the late 1950's.

the golden age of loudspeaker design include many models which like lots more juice than the trendy vintage amp revival can muster. classic ar,advent,allison,dahlquist,apogee,fried,kef,epi,snell duntech,n.e.a.r.,and maybe the most underrated of all, hales and chapman, do like power ss or tubes. some classic jbl and klipsch models can marry pretty well with the mini watt sets, but the majority of models that still sound good to my ears are best served by more powerful stuff. one of the reasons for the d.i.y. boom is that many current overpriced hi-end loudspeakers just are not designed to be.... 1.neutral and 2.tonally accurate. anyone with money can build an impressive speaker, but not a design for the ages. your local hi fi store would love nothing more than to have you buy a set of loudspeakers based on listening to a audiophile cd or lp of a female singer or other smooth jazz. vintage bill evans, the rolling stones, bill monroe, yes, or any other real-world music will 'out' a mediocre design no matter what the driver, wire and cabinet material are. this is a gruesome fact. there are a handful of companies that still are trying to build a music lover's speaker for the marketplace, shahinian, castle, pmc, totem, gradient.....even the maligned 901 is tonally more accurate than most exotic european and asian imports and the highest priced domestic brands which cost more than a new car.