Most agreed upon best speaker?

I heard the Helix for a couple hours at a local reviewer's place and was underwhelmed.

Horses for courses!

Sgr

How about a stack of Marshall amps playing at 11.

I doubt highly a $45k speaker can replicate a 1 to 3 million sound system.

I would love to get some of the drugs you were on.

If we're going to be serious now, the best speakers that _I've_ experienced - meaning the speakers that gave me the more intense, emotional connection to (reproduced) music I've heard - were the Cogent field-coil horns. Driven by Welborne electronics in the Welborne room, RMAF 06. They gelled perfectly even in that small room, and the lack of low bass was entirely a non-issue.

Sounded good the next year, too, with much more expensive/extravagant electronics, but, for whatever reason, did not create the same magic (for me).

I think second for me are the very pricey near top-line Audio Note AN/Es.

Luckily for me the much lower-priced AN/Es are also pretty damn good. Amazing, actually.

Those who cared for reading this "best speaker" thread, do you care more for the sound or music? I suspect that the former is the majority.
Whenever I feel an urge to upgrade my audio systems, my wife jokes me that I care more for the sound than the music itself.
Doh! How true!

Ihcho,

Perhaps the fact that 95% of the responses are facetious says something to your question.