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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 OP
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@cd318

You are right once it reach certain level, it is hard to improve.

200K$ system that I heard at dealers’s ahowroom 3 days ago in Korea does sound less musical than my humble system (total paid cost around 100K$).


But 300K$ vintage Western Electric Horn system that I had heard twice last week in Seoul, Korea blew me away with natural dynamics and sound stage.

Now I got into trouble.

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/are-you-ready-to-dive-for-your-dream-speaker-which-cost-300k
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folkfreak
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You are right once it reach certain level, it is hard to improve

Actually I couldn’t disagree more. With very resolving systems any change in the system is obvious. Fine tuning small details becomes paramount. 

As as a case in point in my system over the past two days I’ve spent many hours firstly getting to appreciate an update on my CD mat (Marigo Clear Transformation to new Aida) and then going back and forth on the impact of introducing a Furutech damping stand under the power cord to the power conditioner that drives my mono blocks. Both of these changes had profound impacts, one I ultimately decided as positive (the mat) and the other negative.

But in both cases the differences were very clear and audible. High resolution means needing to sweat the details I’m afraid and the benefits when you get it right keep adding up 

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shkong78 OP
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@folkfreak

I agree with you in that there is always  room for improvement in any system.

But law of diminishing return applies here, there is no way to justify the cost of 90K$ MSB Select II in my system although it will give subtle improvement in details, soundstage and etc.

But Vintage horn Western Electric system is just another league above from all modern speakers in natural dynamics to justify its cost.
fleschler
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skhkong78  Thanks about the upgrading components.  Once I placed the Signature IIIs in my living room, it was mated to a voltage regulated (non-ultralinear) redesigned Dynaco ST70 with tremendous bass and original Mullard EL34 output tubes.  Also, a custom made subminiature tube voltage regulated preamp and a custom rebuilt CD player.  This is my secondary system, small and great.  Oregonpapa on these forums has the Signature IIIs as his primary speaker and they sound fantastic in his smaller room than my Focus which are in my large listening room.   Both speakers are a bargain used, probably because they are 25 year old models.   But so easy to make sound great compared to expensive new high end speakers for larger rooms.
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noromance
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Quad ESL57 (sans grilles). Transparent like I have yet to hear in any other speaker. And relatively inexpensive. 

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