Have you ever noticed the same brands of equipment and speaker manufacturers being debated over and over again in most threads ? I am curious what are some of the most little know speakers deserving mention you have heard ? With the lone caveat that they must still be currently in production.
I am curious to hear from some of the more research oriented audiophiles like myself. Those who don't just buy it because someone else liked it but listen for them selves.
Remember this hobbie is allot like choosing a mate there are no wrong choices as long as it works for you and suits your personal taste !
Intuitive Design Summit speakers. Almost every speaker the designer has produced, (Dale Pitcher of Essence fame) has become a legend and has been so far advanced in performance that it is common for his designs to stay current for 10 to 20 years. (not an exaggeration)
His speakers are so good that Stereophile won't review them. (politics) I can speak from a lot of experience since I have been a high end dealer for 25 years and a lot of what I carried over the years became legends.
Examples for knowledgeable audiophiles:
Acoustats with direct drive tubes Futterman Townsand David Berning Goetz Rapparort Black Widow Zeta Grahem Marantz tubes Dynaco Hafler VSP Labs Convergence Audio (CAT) Thore Essence Wadia DCS Celestion Mordaunt-Short Snell (when Peter was alive) Electro Compienet Hill Plasma Dayton-Wright Michalson & Auston AR table Thorens Sound Labs Kinergetics Entec New York Audio Labs Quick Silver Sequerra Studer Quad Vanderstien Unity Audio NRG Bedini and so on ........
I second Green Mountain. Their designer, Roy Johnson is truly one of the great guys in Audio. They just sound right, I've owned many other "famous" brands of speakers and I still can't believe what my Callisto monitors can do.
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