Journey ending speakers

As I've said before: never trust any audiophile who says he has found his "journey-ending speaker" until he's on his death bed.

Most of us feel that way when we are enamoured with some new purchase but then after a while, whadyya know, something new comes along (even if it's the new version 1.2 of the same gear) or that itch just makes itself known again.
ove lost count of the number of audiophile friends and acquaintances who said if some component "this is it!" only to see them rave later on about the gear that replaces it.

My modified decades old B&W 801 are the ones I will always keep. My father (not an audiophile) mistakenly bought these studio monitor speakers, which sounded flat... awful -- they have built in casters, no less. Over the years I tried many different amp, pre amp combinations to no avail. Finally, I decided to give them one last chance and replaced the circuitry. North Creek's external boxes, each containing approximately 30 lbs of copper wiring, made for the perfect speaker, at least in my price range. In addition to the B&Ws, I've owned Polk, KEF, ML, Cambridge Audio, Cerwin Vega, JBL and others.

Powering the 4345s biamped with McIntosh MC2500 500 RMS for the 18" woofers and mid, horn tweeter, and super tweet with the MC275VI.

Tannoy for me.  Currently have Definition DC8 and am saving for Turnberrys or Kensingtons.  Been through many speakers!  The Tannoys just engage me like none of the others.  Music flows from them first, and then the usual hifi adjectives follow secondly.  Best.......