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
The infinity IRS I listened to had 16 EMITs per front and back, total of 32.

I later built what I had called the mini-IRS, using 9 EMIMs and 8 per side EMITs. These speakers were way better than the Infinity RS1/A/B, and when I mentioned it to the Infinity people it seemed one company owner thought it was a stupid idea, yet another said the IRS, helped sell the Infinity name and my speaker idea would not be worth its production costs.

This was much nicer than saying my idea was stupid.

My crossover design, simple 2-way, was much better than that complex design used in the large Q and RS models
Ladycharnet....very interesting. Like Ctsooner....any pics and more info???

Thanks
Rick (RWD)
I liked the Vandersteen 3aSigs vertically bi-amp with VTL mono blocks and 2-2wq subs. The last Vandi I owned were Mod 5 sigs like them a lot and kept them for awhile. When I heard Von Schweikerts that was a game changer for me. Started out with vr1, vr2, vr3 which I use in the ht system with LCR15 and TS-350s. In the main 2 channel room VSA VR 5 in vertical tri-amp configuration seems to float my boat and all my classical musicians player friends. So in essence I own what I like. The exception was Infinity Rs1 I think it was 4 7 foot high panels with tons of electronics sounded very good just too much gear.