What's your dream speaker?

I’ve been listening to them for 45 years. 

fred6059 posts07-16-2021 6:18amRaidho D 3.1.  To my ears, Raidho's do it all.  Of course Borresen is the genius behind it.  Haven't had a chance to hear his new line, so maybe the Borresen 03.  At $66K, unfortunately can't go there!


I agree with each and every statement fred60 made above. My 20.5 ft wide by 17ft deep room x 10ft avg ceiling (two large openings) won't support more than that size. I run older D2s now and am more than satisfied since I no longer have house parties. I still lust after the B03 for it's newer design and performance.

I'd need to keep my DSPeaker unit of course to tame the mid-bass hump but I think Michael's a genius. I'd still want four good but modest subs to low-pass at 40 or so for a DBA bottom-end. That would probably be nirvana to me, in this home.

One of the best moves I have ever made as an audiophile - this will apply to a certain percentage of frustrated hobbyists - was to abandon the search for "the One", the purported speaker that would sound perfect, and seek variety. I have found delight in the speakers of different genres I have used. Audiophilia was fraught with frustration until I made variety the key of my system building. That is when I realized that I am a System Builder, a particular breed of audiophile like the Mediaphile.  :)

For those who have longed for big gun dynamic or hybrid dynamic speaker systems, but feel they are well beyond your budget, I offer you Aspen Acoustics, a fledgeling company in Colorado with some sonically very capable designs. Legacy Audio has the OB/quasi-line source thing down, and Aspen Acoustics does what I call in my review of the Lagrange L5 MkII, the DLT (Disproportionately Large Tweeter) design. It's a wonderful experience that fuses the panel/ribbon and dynamic genres together. It has a unique sound signature that is appealing to me. 

If you are seeking a formidable speaker with BIG performance, but at a fraction of the cost of a Wilson or JM Labs, you may wish to speak to Scott Kindt of Aspen Acoustics. I own the Lagrange L1 prototype shown on the website, and will be having it replaced by the production version of the L1. I will be conducting an owner's review of it for Dagogo.com. Though a different genre due to DLT, I put the performance/sound quality level of the L1 prototype near that of the Wilson Alexx (I have not heard version V, so I exclude that model from my assessment). Note that I am not claiming the L1 or prototype to outperform these others, as I have not conducted a comparison in my room. Such claims would be unsubstantiated and unwarranted. However, dismissals by partial owners or those with vested interests in these others would also be unwarranted.  :) 

Several models of Legacy Audio speakers also reviewed by myself for Dagogo.com over the years. 

There is also legitimacy, though limited advancement, to grabbing on to a speaker and pushing it to perform better over the years. I have done this with the King Sound King Tower omni. When I first obtained it, the sound was respectable but not stunning. Now, with continued development ( I do not use the term "evolve" to describe system building, as I feel it is entirely inadequate to describe the process) the speaker is moving into the rapturous realm. It doesn't make it magically a far superior transducer, but it does make it a much more enjoyable one.   :) 

My dream speaker showed up again last night. But just as before, just as I was about to get close enough to read the label something woke me up and I had to go pee. Why is it always the good dreams interrupted like this?