The best speaker you ever heard?

Calvin - I was wrong on the SF model but this might actually be more relevant to your current direction.

The speakers he has are SF Electa Amator, NOT Guarneri (don't know where I got that name from).

ARC equipment is VT130 amp w/LS2 pre.

Regardless of name. It sounded great. Good look in your search.

I have listened extensively to the new Auditorium-23 Cinema Hommage speakers. They are absolutely stunning in every way. Musical presence, soundstaging, instrument textures, timbral accuracy, transparency, dynamics, resolution, weight - everything I could ever hope for in music reproduction, rendered in a way and to a degree that I have never before experienced. It might take weeks or even months, but I am going to find a way to own a pair!

I will go arc/sonus faber combination. I have ref3 if I go smaller I will get vsi60 arc integrated with sonus faber speaker.

11-22-14: Mdemaio
The two that have stuck with me – each for a completely different reason - were the Volti Vittora and the Goldmund Prologos.

+ 1. The Prologos are very dynamic and musical speakers. They sound very smooth and are good sound stagers. I would love to hear the mighty Apologue Anniversary!

the 80k Rockports are pretty amazing too. Forget the name, but I've heard them really sing with some incredible amplification and vinyl.