I nominate this company as building best speakers!

It is always fun to see what everyone says when a question like "what is the best (fill in the blank)?"  We all are very passionate about what we love and it is always different.  It is like trying to get total agreement on what is the best beer or wine.  There will never be any agreement and that is a good thing.  It makes our hobby exciting. 

  He get's it    There is no “best.”  That’s a fallacy
       Some 10 yo weasel  likes then  So stay back 

Not sure how you can make such a strong claim until you've lived with a speaker for awhile.  I fell in love with a pair of speakers at the dealer, only to find that I could not live with them in my room, for various reasons.  The showroom is NOT your living room.  

mahalkita
I have to agree with your assessment of the durability of the apogee speakers, the only thing that is finally getting bad on mine is the foam.

you know if you were to buy those speakers they would not come close to what you heard in that store & no matter how much  $ you spend cables & place meant location can make  or brake any big$ speaker i still love my old THIEL 3.6  With all drivers upgrade  Need Big power amp to drive theses  they Blow Any Wilson puppies out of the box have fun greg