High Efficiency Speakers Your top 3 or more


Not taking cost or musical preferences into account what are the top 3 high efficiency speakers you've ever heard, overall?
mmike84
I don't think anyone has mentioned Avantgarde Acoustic horn loudpeakers yet? Avantgarde Trios have a specified efficiency (1Watt/1m) of >109 dB, beat that! I am sure someone will.
Are klipsch forte II in the same league as any of these others? I think those are like 99db efficient.
The Lamhorn is very good - can be forward.

The Beauhorn is also very good, quite a bit smoother, but less heft.

Of course neither of these have any real highs (and if you 'throw in a super-tweeter' you're now building your own speaker).

Devore are great speakers but they are really not high-eff in any sense, though they will play on a 300B.

Klipsch can sound decent but the people who say they are mid-fi speakers stock do have a point.

The various Fostex backloaded horns have beguiling qualities but I have not heard one that did not have some forwardness/peakiness issues.

The Audio Note AN/Es are very special and will play decently on a 45 SET. Unfortunately in a great many rooms it is nearly impossible to get smooth bass in the corners and out of the corners the bass reach is quite compromised.

The Tonian speakers are absolute, pure genius.
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Tvad,

I've been interested in trying high efficiency horns primarily based on fun factor as well as being at the other end of the design spectrum from everything I run currently.

The CAR speaks with the field coil drivers must be absolutely fantastic (and expensive), perhaps without comparison in certain ways.

When the time comes, I'll be wading into these waters to see how it feels before going for a major plunge!

WAF is a major inhibitor for me with these high efficiency horns because I would like to target them into my wife's sunroom where the Dynaudio monitors sit relatively unobtrusively today.

Very informative thread here!