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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.

http://stereotimes.com/speak112410.shtml



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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tomic601
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 @folkfreak is right keep working the details, hyper level matching is important or you are most likely just chasing your tail....
I chewed mine off long ago....tailess Kat...

I probably have a lot less runway ahead than behind....but yes, easy to say I could live with my Vandersteen 7.....I am blessed to have Richards amps as well and there are rumblings of a preamp, so who knows...IF I ever build a dedicated room, might get his sub 9... that is a longshot....
My Naim server is getting a bit long in the tooth, so that might be next....
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atmasphere
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Had any one of you found the speaker for your life?
So far, yes. I've had the Classic Audio Loudspeakers T-3s for about 20 years. I had them updated about 8 years ago with the new field coil midrange drivers (which employ beryllium diaphrams with Kapton surrounds). When I initially had them built, they were made a few inches taller just so I could honestly say they go down to 20Hz (the TAD 15" woofers have a free air resonance of 22Hz).  So the speaker goes from 20Hz to about 35Khz, are 16 ohms and 98db 1 watt/1 meter. I really don't see changing them out- they are still some of the most revealing and uncolored speakers I've heard.
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shkong78 OP
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@ atmasphere

Wow your Classic Audio Loudspeakers loo fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_cqeuogxc0

Is there any place in US to audition them?

I expect  you enjoy it for your life.
teddy_k
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Hi everyone,
well yes! I think I can live the rest of my life in the company of my Vandersteen speakers.. I have a pair of Quatro powered by a class A Pass
Sublime coupled! i enjoy doing experiments by changing the source dac, the rest of hifi system will not be touched ..
best regards
oldster8
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My first post on this site, although active on another forum for years.
I have had Ohm C2’s since ’77. Upgraded the woofers from Ohm. Also ADS L880 since new in ’85. But hav added and subtracted speakers in recent years. Maybe some modern speakers would be nice.
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