Your Side by Side Experience With Best Vintage vs Newer Expensive Hi Tech Speakers

Quad 57's still beat most new stuff. I am glad I have two pairs (so I can experiment with stacking!).

@michaelgreenaudio your bang on to what ive been thinking. Audio has gone down the proverbial dumpster. Today its all about audio jewellery than audio musicality. Whos got the nicest most expensive toy.
Can i get your opinion about turntables and tonearms in my other post. Modern turntables Tonearms and to lesser extent have really confused the heck out of me. Should i spend tens of thousands to what many claim are the best tonearms and spaceage turntables or insanely priced cartridges that cost more than a new car? Will it make a major sonic difference?

"Musical" Is that somehow contrary to accurate sound reproduction? It sure sounds like it judging by Vinny and Mike's diatribes. As far as I can tell, there's vintage audio fans and there's HiFi fans, and they're not the same people. 
Sorry, vintage folks, but you're working with some inverted logic here. Mike is up there calling a system that reveals crappy recordings as crap a bunch of BS. Maybe if the studio monitors it was mixed on weren't a couple of hazy, vague boxes like old JBL's, the recording wouldn't be crap. Some artists actually give a hoot how their recordings sound. 
I'm pretty sure my stereo's job is to faithfully reproduce the signal it's given. If that signal sucks, I expect lousy noises to come out. If that doesn't happen, I don't find that to be a strength. That's a weakness. If this thing just glossed over such failings in a recording, it would be totally useless for giving feedback on mixes, which a buddy of mine wants from time to time. If a mix sounds good on a stereo better than almost anything anybody else will be hearing it on, it's probably going to sound great on almost anything. 

vinny55

Should i spend tens of thousands to what many claim are the best tonearms and spaceage turntables or insanely priced cartridges that cost more than a new car? Will it make a major sonic difference?

The best approach is to listen and decide for yourself.

The point about restoring vintage is well taken.... needs to be up to snuff....
and frankly I appreciate and use the two tone controls on the MX-110
i think that is a virtue McIntosh mostly continues to this day....

now trying to to convince me that a tea saucer sized Bozak tweeter can reproduce the shimmer on Gold Dust Woman... well it would take a “ Connection” to make that happen.....