Are these Speakers the BEST on Planet Earth ?...

It’s funny, in the old days I would frequent high-end audio salons and stores where stereos were sold, and listen to speakers--sometimes SOTA ones--and I’d remember the ones that impressed me. So at any given time I’d have a mental list of what I considered the "best" speakers to be. But in all cases they would be speakers I had experienced for myself, with my own ears, in, like, you know, reality.

No more. Nowadays there aren’t any stores near me that sell and demo speakers, and I no longer frequent audio dealers, and I no longer hear speakers firsthand...so I really have no idea of what might be "the best" speaker, in my opinion.

I miss those days. I’d love to have an opinion about what the best might be. But nowadays all I have is a much less useful and interesting list in my head...namely, a list of speakers I’ve read about and that sound like they might be worth checking out. But in all those cases I’ve never actually checked them out, because I can’t.

I bought my current speakers having never heard them first.

So we seek absolute perfection in reproducing decidedly imperfect sources like acoustic instruments, vintage guitars and amps and even the human voice? ;-) As for 8 inch speakers not being able to reproduce base, I know that these did not go down below 20 Hz, but if you ever looked at the speaker complement in the rather large cabinet that comes with what was considered the ultimate bass guitar amplifier for years, the Ampeg SVT?

@jmforge- The lowest Bass Guitar note is E2 (82.4 Hz).       There were/are a variety of speaker cabinets, designed to accompany the SVT amp.      Some for practice and some for moving real air, at one (individual) instrument’s primary frequencies.      Is this the one, to which you’re referring? https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SVT810E--ampeg-svt-810e-8x10-inch-800-watt-extension-cabinet

Uh @rodman99999 I play bass, started on string bass in 6th grade... low E is more like 41Hz. But most bass guitar cabs are set up to play 82Hz as the bass has a strong 2nd harmonic.


Even though I might use a class D to power them, I prefer a speaker to which I can connect my own amp. Maybe this is because I make amps and prefer what I perceive as greater neutrality in them. So I don't think this is the best speaker by any means, although it appears to have a lot of competent engineering going into it.

I have actually heard them both with and without the BXT. They are better with but the price goes up a LOT.

I don't think they are the best on Earth but they are very, very good. I remember thinking that I might be able to save up for them without the BXT. You get almost a whole system. Just connect a streamer and you are good to go. It is like a combo of a speaker and an integrated with a built in dac. I will probably never buy them but hope equally good models will appear for a lower price.

Regarding D&D 8 they don't have anything like the BXT bass module. They might be a bit warmer.

The best I've heard was some large Focal Utopias and Magico M6.