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What's your favorite boutique speaker maker

Seeing a few discussions recently about Fritz made me curious about what other artisan speaker shops are out there. 

I'll cast my vote for Louis at Omega Speakers in CT. His high efficiency full range Alnico drivers, impeccable craftsmanship and very reasonable prices make a compelling option. I've had some very nice speakers over the years but these put a smile on my face like no others could. My search is over. 

No affiliation with him, here's a link to the ones he built for me the beginning of this year. 
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7RE-f7JiW6/
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a_shah
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Tidal (if one can afford them )
Trenner &Friedl ( reasonably priced)
Daedalus
vanderstein 

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baclagg
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I'm curious as to why no one has mentioned Tyler Acoustics. Have any of you owned a pair of his speakers? There are very few reviews out there for them and I would like to hear what the Audiogon community thinks.
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roxy54
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a_shah,
Tidal (if one can afford them )
Trenner &Friedl ( reasonably priced)
Daedalus
vanderstein

The only one of those that might be considered boutique is Daedalus, and even that’s borderline.
strat_80
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Have cycled through tons of speakers. Now I swear by Dennis Murphy’s Phil-3. Mine are in beautiful red maple veneer. My cousing got a pair in curly maple blue. Cabinets were done by the great Jim Salk of Salksound. Dennis and Jim work together on projects. Salksound offers the fantastic BMRs (I have a pair).

http://philharmonicaudio.com/pa_archive/phil3.html

These go quite low and they are superb and I am pretty much done.Since I can’t leave things alone, just for the heck of it I added two SVS SB2000 subwoofers, one for each channel. Dennis suggested crossing over to the subs at 80Hz and wow!! I just can’t see needing anything better.
displayname
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Totally agree, hard to define boutique. Personally I'm a big fan of Rosso Fiorentino. Certainly not well known, but I don't know if it's considered boutique either. And to an extent would could say anything ultra high end (say Rockport) is boutique because you can really only get their gear via their dealers... aka audio boutiques. By that measure brands like Tekton and Zu are decidedly not boutique if we're being technical. 
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