All Pre 1970 Vintage speakers suck! Prove me wrong

@jhnnrrs 

My comment was intended to be a not-so-serious post on a not-so-serious subject.  Sometimes I miss the mark.  I'll try to do better next time.

@mrdecibel 

I stand corrected on the model#.  Thanks for noticing.  As a vintage/modern speaker "mod'r" I am not surprised that you've obtained good results with your internal upgrades.  I found that many vintage drivers can be quite "musical" when components in the single path are removed/upgraded that degrade sound quality.

Quad - "The closest approach to the original sound" - from the advertising brochure!

While not my favorite, the JBL Hartsfield is still a pretty good vintage speaker.

Have owned JBL, 4311 and agree, thy are fabulous with punch and authority. EV Centurion Corner Horms - just sound like music. Playing a set of '63 Tannoy, Belvedere now and they are sublime; truly my wheelhouse. 15" Reds are amazing in that volume cabinet. C'mon on the ESL 57s are spooky good. All of these played with vintage Mac... not sure what you're looking for. 

There are a bunch of people in the audiophile forums on Facebook that get real upset when you nay-say something about Radio Shack garbage or Pioneer/Kenwood/Sansui speakers with 8 cheap drivers splashed willy-nilly across the front (and/or rear) baffle.  "Vintage" they call them.  I call them junk.

As for older speakers, the Dynaco A-25 had the most natural midrange going, but lacked highs and lows.  I replaced them with Advents and the lovely mids were gone, but some highs were back along with a muddy bass.  I remember being at Harvey Sound in White Plains, hearing what a thought was a real, live cello playing in another room.  Looking in I found it was a pair of Rectilinear 3s.  Very impressive at the time.