What vintage speaker might you use today

Interesting thread. I'm in the ADS camp, still running my original L710's in the sunroom area. Also have a pair of L520's (used $100 for the pair) upstairs providing sound to my TV set-up. I was surprised how good they were for dialogue. Also just set up my son in law with a pair of L620's bought used for $60 for the pair. He has a vinyl set up and is ecstatic with the sound. None are extremely detailed, but all have that balanced forward sound - very nostalgic in this day of soundstage/detail/imaging.

I could live with a pair of EPI 350's.  They were killer, and needed lots of power to cook.  But boy could they cook.. 

Although I may get flamed here, I've been very happy with Lowther for the last 15 years. Was running Ohm speakers & epos speakers in the 80's & 90's and also liked them. The Lowthers are fitted in fidelio cabinets & powered with an SE 6550 amp. I just upgraded to the DX3 model (from the PM2C) about a week ago. The mid-range and 3D imaging/sound-stage are absolutely beautiful. These speakers come to life with vinyl. With good recordings the realism is spooky good. True magic.  

I'm too lazy to read this entire thread, but has anybody mentioned Bozak? Late 60's "people with actual money" had these things here and there and my hippy brain seemed to like them. A note about Altec A7s…there was something "woody" about these things that was, to me anyway, very appealing. We replaced the Altec 15s with JBL bass guitar speakers (as opposed to JBL PA speakers) that could handle kick drum miking with aplomb.

I bought AR9s & Quad ESL63s new in the eighties, and KEF R107/2s a decade later. All three are still competitive with all but the finest (read most expensive) speakers I've heard to date, and I'm still using all three. Interestingly enough, the Quads are the only ones that haven't required ANY service in all these years!

 I don't think there are too many new speakers that really improve on the very best of what was available going back 40yrs or more. Sure, they may be bested in one area, or another - heck that was true even when they were new, but even today, it's hard to do much better over all.

The biggest change in speakers in the last several decades has been in the lower price range. There are certainly far more good to very good speakers now than there used to be. It used to be a pleasant surprise when you could find a good speaker, now I think it's pretty hard to find a bad one.