I worked my way through a bevy of bookshelf speaker systems back then during a misspent youth: AR, DYNACO A25s, EPI 100s, JBL L88's (2-way) and L100s (3-way) , CAMBER 2.0’s .....
in brief: they were "okay" for their time (emphasis added) and their price-point back then
but .....
(I) the "nostalgic" models now get handily bested by even modest price-point strata current speakers, and ;
( ii) with the dramatic improvement in today’s speaker design, crossovers, and build components today, the old nostalgic speaker gear gets completely smoked as you go up the $$ food chain into premium price strata and premium build offerings ..... not even close.
Nostalgia lives on for a certain small segment of audio enthusiasts even as the ever-improving technology advances at a rapid and accelerated rate.
in brief: they were "okay" for their time (emphasis added) and their price-point back then
but .....
(I) the "nostalgic" models now get handily bested by even modest price-point strata current speakers, and ;
( ii) with the dramatic improvement in today’s speaker design, crossovers, and build components today, the old nostalgic speaker gear gets completely smoked as you go up the $$ food chain into premium price strata and premium build offerings ..... not even close.
Nostalgia lives on for a certain small segment of audio enthusiasts even as the ever-improving technology advances at a rapid and accelerated rate.