New Speakers: expensive and not like the old ones

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30 years ago, the JBL L100 was the dominant speaker on the market, and a large part of the industry imitated the wide box dimensions and sound approach that JBL used.

The other dominate flavor at the time were the AR / Advent designs that I still find quite natural sounding today (if not a pinch boxy with cabinet diffraction issues). I have a double pair of New Advents in my vintage system that do not share the mid bass / upper midrange peaks of the Century.

I am amazed at how good these vintage speakers sound today (albeit refoamed and with recapped and rewired xovers) when fed with nice upstream components.

rw