I suppose it depends on what you mean by vintage sound. The best place to start regardless would probably be a coated ambassador head as pretty much everything in the 60s would have used that. Generic snare wires in the 16-20 count realm would have been typical.

I find standard modern coated heads a bit plasticky sounding...looking for something a warmer, more wholesome (if that makes any sense).

I've never found that myself, but unless you buy a set of Calfskins (which is the drummers equivalent of wearing a real fur coat) then look at fyberskyns or Skyntones.

With regards to getting a warmer sound Id been considering real calf but decided not to as I don't want to be retuning a vintage radio king more than I have to (so I hear) Ive just discovered there is a warm calf like head called Evans strata 1000 I'm going to be putting this on the drum just to see if it's any good, after the ambassador wears a bit more that is. As for wires, I've got Canopus vintage chrome plated on a 60s supraphonic, and also have a pair of Canopus vintage dry, both are as good as it gets. Puresound are very good as well.

I'm not realy familiar with your drums there but I'm with you on trying different wires and heads on some nice vintage drums (snares in my case), pity it gets expensive but you can't beat it. Good pun there -can't beat it!

Im doing what John Bonham did for my 3 ply Luddy's. Coated Emperor batters/coated Ambassador reso's. They sound great on my Fibes kit also and they are SS over fiberglass.

I would like to try the Vintage version of those two on my next kit, I have heard great things about them here on VDF.

Yeah I would like to try the vintage A's, they say they are made just like the originals, do we know if this is true? and when they changed the construction?

I hear the vintage A is two ply, second plu is only about 3mil isn't it? I don't know what the point is there. The ambassador x head is actually the best I've had, it's only one ply but it's 12 mil, I greatly recommend that one