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The best speaker you ever heard?

In my opinion, the speaker is by far the most important part of the audio system. After all, it is the only part you hear. OK, the other stuff really matters a lot, but without a great speaker... No go.

I am a bit 'speaker-obsessed' I guess, and now I am wondering: What are the best speakers you have ever heard, and what made them the best?
njonker
bin
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I have to agree with the Linkwitz Orion's. I, like many of us, have owned many speakers. From Ohms, to Maggies to Planers to high-end dynamic's etc. etc.. My jos allows me to travel extensively so there are also a lot of speakers I have auditioned. The Orion is the finest speaker I have owned or heard. They have shattered many audio myths that I thought were truths. The fact that Mr. Linkwitz, the HP scientist, that has also had a life long passion for audio has made them available so inexpensively to anyone who has the ability to build them themself (or you can have built for you, so inexpensively says volumes about the man. His audio expertise is beyond reproach unlike some other so called experts in the field IMO. If you love music you owe it to yourself to do a google search on them. Educate yourself and try and hear them if you can. It could very well be the best time and money you have spent in this wonderful passionate hobby of ours.
avivey
42 posts
 
MERLIN VSM-M on a BERNING ZH-270!

Call me crazy but I doubt you can top that combo for double maybe even triple the money.
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johnk
1,975 posts
 
Converging Quad Oris 150 horn array with giant upsized decware imps and t900a tweeter.But Iam working on something better. Pic http://steinman.mesls.org/stereo/J%20Kalinoski%20Loudspeakers%20101.jpg
jvds
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funny one tubeears!
jvds
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You know I'm not sure. My Carver amazings (2200.00 new in 94) are definitely not the best speaker now or ever. But I have not heard anything else under say 10K or so that I think blows them out of the water. I listened extensively to maggie 3.6 and I liked some things better but in many ways I liked my Carvers. I have also listened to Avalon, Wilson, Mcintosh (all very pricey!) and Analysis Audio (look like Apogee rip off) and they just don't justify the difference in dough....

I just installed New Peerless 10" very massive woofers to replace the carver orig.and had the xover done with new caps etc. by parts connexion and now they are even more amazing.(pun) But, I'm also buying Quad 989's because I think that they may do it for me. who knows? The mind of an addict is not very predictable
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