Can you live with your current speaker until you die?


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Yes I can!

In my 40 years of history I had gone through around 15 speakers including

ADS, Altec Lansing, Thiel, Canton, Apogee Duetta Signature(10years), BMW 801, Avalon Ascent, Wilson Audio Watt and Puppy6.



I settled at Pacific Northwest area located just midway between Seattle and Vancouver BC around 6 years ago.

It has a nice western view of Bay and Pacific Ocean with 2 acres lot.

I could play music loud during midnight with no problem to my neighbors as long as I close the windows.


With vaulted big space, my Lansche 4.1 speakers makes a beautiful voice out of classical, Jazz or even new age music.

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I had been living with the speaker since 2007.

I do not claim that Lansche 4.1 is the best speaker in the world.

But with clean and pristine treble out of plasma tweeters and pretty good bass out of 2 10 inch driven by internal active amplifier and high efficiency (99db spec, but I believe it to be around 93db), it is hard to find better speaker with overall merit for my house.


The only catch is that it can stop working since it is an active speaker( plasma tweeter and active bass unit).

But I keep having good communication with Henry Dien of Lansche Audio who upgraded plasma tweeters twice at reasonable cost.

I can happily live with Lansche 4.1 speakers at my present house for my life unless serious health issues happen to either me or my speakers.

How about you gentlemen and ladies?

Had any one of you found the speaker for your life?


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funny question. it would be easier to answer if I knew my death date well in advance...
I owned some main system speakers for decades.  In fact I still own them as I am attached to them and would miss them, but I have moved to different speakers in my main system.

Each speaker does some things well and very good speakers do most things well, but I haven't (yet) met speakers that do everything better than anything else I have heard.  OTOH I am quite happy with my current main speakers and see no likelihood that I'll want to change them.

Heritage speakers used in subordinate systems: Energy Reference Connoisseur, Vandersteen 4A, Martin Logan CLS (original), 

Mains: Wilson Maxx 2

If I had been able to find the Apogee Scintillas I was after I'd probably have them too (and would need a bigger house).
I can live with my Gallo Ref II's for the rest of my life

I have heard many systems whose speakers were as much as 10x more expensive and was not impressed! Including an all Naim system with some electrostatics...

Only pair I am VERY curious about is the Infinity IRS Epsilon - for one reason and one reason only: I seem to remember reading these are the speakers Yo-Yo Ma owns!
...easily: Gershman Avant Garde RX-20 in main system, and JBL PRIMA L25 in 2nd system...
Not a chance and not because my Paradigm Studio 100 V5 are not excellent speakers. Not that I have an unlimited budget (far from it) but I've heard some very impressive speakers that ignite the wanderlust in me.