Can you live with your current speaker until you die?


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Yes I can!

In my 40 years of history I had gone through around 15 speakers including

ADS, Altec Lansing, Thiel, Canton, Apogee Duetta Signature(10years), BMW 801, Avalon Ascent, Wilson Audio Watt and Puppy6.



I settled at Pacific Northwest area located just midway between Seattle and Vancouver BC around 6 years ago.

It has a nice western view of Bay and Pacific Ocean with 2 acres lot.

I could play music loud during midnight with no problem to my neighbors as long as I close the windows.


With vaulted big space, my Lansche 4.1 speakers makes a beautiful voice out of classical, Jazz or even new age music.

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I had been living with the speaker since 2007.

I do not claim that Lansche 4.1 is the best speaker in the world.

But with clean and pristine treble out of plasma tweeters and pretty good bass out of 2 10 inch driven by internal active amplifier and high efficiency (99db spec, but I believe it to be around 93db), it is hard to find better speaker with overall merit for my house.


The only catch is that it can stop working since it is an active speaker( plasma tweeter and active bass unit).

But I keep having good communication with Henry Dien of Lansche Audio who upgraded plasma tweeters twice at reasonable cost.

I can happily live with Lansche 4.1 speakers at my present house for my life unless serious health issues happen to either me or my speakers.

How about you gentlemen and ladies?

Had any one of you found the speaker for your life?


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shkong78,
The Sopra's are rated at 91db with one watt of input, not "super efficient", but more efficient than most.
I have them in a 24x26' room and when I'm listening to them at a loud (for me) level, the needles on my power amp dance around the 4.5 watt mark.
@ejr1953

I know Sopra have high sensitivity.

But many people are of the opinion that high power amplifier is necessary for tight and deep bass.

Thanks for sharng your experience.

Enjoy your speaker for your life.
Yes, too many folks equate efficiency to driving speakers.  Current and control are key.  This is why you can have synergy with a speaker adn amp that 'seems' under powered, but really isn't.  You can also have a bad match just hooking up some behemoth amp with a speaker at say 85db efficient.  This is why I hate reading threads where folks make real life decisions on gear from specs.  It's just crazy.  Starting point maybe, but any good speaker designer will tell you to listen to an amp with their speakers before saying it's under powered.  Some like specific amp designs like zero feedback etc..., but in the end, it's still personal taste.
@ctsooner 

I agree with you in that synergy is important.

Some speakers seems to be power hungry with low impedance despite high efficiency.

You will never know the synergy until you try yourself at your home.

Blind shopping could be hit or miss.
No. I thought I'd be content with a recently  acquired pair of reference 3A Veenas - based on my de Capo BE's I had a while ago. 

But it they're too warm and dark for my taste. Beautiful imaging; just not what I'm looking for.

maybe Spatials in my future?