most accurate loudspeakers....


Many of you are correct, it is personal choice and your own ears. Now that being said ,I do agree with Stevecham in that Thiels are incredibly accurate and one of the best
loudspeakers I ever heard was a Thiel CS 7.2 ...to my ears that is.
timmo812
How do we define most accurate? Here are a couple possibilities:
1. Most accurate at creating the illusion of a live concert or musicians in your home?
2. Most accurate and reproducing the input signal's waveform in room at your listening seat?

At this time I believe these 2 possibilities are mutually exclusive.

I know some speakers that do a good job at #1, like Sound Labs. I don't know ANY speaker which can do #2.

Donald North
the problem with a subjective criterion like the illusion of a live concert is the wide range of assessments associated with a given stereo system.

the pursuit of accuracy, the measurement of accuracy and the criteria for accuracy are all counter productive.

if i can say i like the sound of a stereo system it doesn't matter how inaccurate it is.

the question for all of us, why do we like the sound of a stereo system ?
The first and last speaker to fool me I was listening to a live performance is the Apogee Scintilla. No other system, in any room has come close.

That moment when I walked into an audio store, where I had listened to scores of speakers, I heard a piano being played - in the near vicinity - I literally walked all about the store looking for the recital.

I completely agree with Donald. You cannot have both and I prefer the first possibility he's mentioned. I would only add the old Quads to his Sound Labs.
Cheers,