Recommendations for Vintage Speakers

geoffkait

...  for live music there is no absolute sound since all auditoriums, symphony halls, night clubs, etc. sound different. AND - depending on where one is sitting or standing in a given venue - the sound will be different.

But whatever that sound is, of live unamplified music, that is the absolute sound. And for that matter, many French horns, or violas, or trombones sound different from their brethren. That doesn't mean each doesn't create its own absolute sound.

In addition, many home audio systems actually have better sound than many live performances.

Quite so! That's one of the rewards of being an audiophile.

In fact the same instrument can sound totally different in different rooms and to different people. It can sound different on different days, in different weather conditions, just like audio systems. End of story. 🤗

Everything is relative. - A. Einstein

+1 lancelock! I have a pair of KLH Nines (in use since 1992!). And also two pairs of Quad 57's (for the past three years). 

I have had a vintage system in my bedroom since it was not a vintage system.  I have run lots of different (some new at the time) vintage speakers thru it, Advent, Infinity, AR, Klipsch, ADS, etc.  My favorite, and still in that system are ADS after over 35 years.  I have the L710.  I have heard some of the larger floor standers from that era as well.  I don't think you can go wrong with them.

@geoffkait 
****But whatever that sound is, of live unamplified music, that is the absolute sound.****

Bingo.  When you're familiar with sound of live unamplified music, you understand the absolute nature of it.  They can vary the setting, the recording set-up, the staging... doesn't matter.  When you hear it through recorded playback and it hits the spot, that's the absolute sound.