Best speakers around $130k?

As Bob and others have stated, it is the OPs prerogative as to how they spend their hard-earned capital.

 

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Sure none of US (objectors to the OP’s ideology, fantasy, faulty beliefs ) to the EQ = More you spend = Better the speaker sound. Which as we all well seasoned audiophiles know thi is a false and fake dictum. More you spend never has, nor ever will **guarantee* super fidelity. And we all know who started this bogus nonsense,,, our old propagandists , big fat mouths, ~~~STEREOPHILE~~~~~~~~~~~~ aka Sterile-O-phile,,hahahahahaaaaaa Just setting the record STRAIGHT, once and for all time. I’d put my speakers up to any super mega price bloated speaker, any and all. Midrange as reference.

Even if I could afford the big guns, Dali

Sonus faber

Rockport

Wilson

did I miss any??

oh yeah 

DALEAUS speakers $$$$$$$$

 

Even IF, 

I'd pass on all.

and buy the ones I have now.

 Under,,R U ready.??

.Get this

less than 

1G.

Fidelity has nothing whatsoever to do with price tag.

Midrange only as reference, Sure the big guns dual 10 inch woofers will offer more (= LOUDER) bass.

Big deal. 

All  unbiased opiniosn based on exp of knowing how the very finest midwoofers perform. Along with oe of the best tweeters ever made.

So dont  come back and say  **you dont know what you are talking about,. And both had Troels  demands, high end drivers demand high end caps. 

I gave em all they needed to perform, yet they failed the test to quality as high fidelity.

Theres a  new kid on the block.

 

 

 

@mozartfan - My friend's Von Schweikert VR-35 Export is a fantastic speaker with 1st order crossovers at 80 Hz and 6K Hz, essentially a full range driver (pair) with subwoofer and supertweeter.   With a McIntosh C20 and RM-9 pre and amp, it reproduces music lifelife, huge soundstage, open, perfect tonality and with tunefull bass slam.  It's a smaller version of the great Ultra 9 and 11.   Sold for $10K direct in 2011, would cost double today with really high quality drivers and parts.   MKII has even higher quality caps, cabling and additional dampening.  I've never heard horns that sound that complete and wonderful.  

 

fleschler1,384 posts 01-01-2022 6:37pm @mozartfan - My friend's Von Schweikert VR-35 Export is a fantastic speaker with 1st order crossovers at 80 Hz and 6K Hz, essentially a full range driver (pair) with subwoofer and supertweeter. With a McIntosh C20 and RM-9 pre and amp, it reproduces music lifelife, huge soundstage, open, perfect tonality and with tunefull bass ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You know some months back i came across the VS speakers here on audiogon, Surprised me, as its the one and ONLY commercial speaker that ,,if you can believe it,,, that held my attention. Let me look more into its makeup,,,you say it actually has some sort of FR/wide band as mid??? Here it is with the incredible super SET ~~Kronzilla~~~ not the best record/cam quality, but we get a hint

 

 

 

look, let me make a  feeble attempt to explain what i've been blabbing about these past 6 months or even longer. 

OK so the VS's have some sort of 3/4 way.

Tweeter , OK, I have 1 now about to add a  2nd

ck

FR, not sure about the VS FR driver. Sounds **ok**, but can't say for sure.

From the looks, its not on the same level as the DLVX8, which IMHO is based on the old legendary Coral Beta 8, which was the heir to EV and Jensen (I dont like Lowther, Fostex not sure, not heard the speaker).

And VS has dual 8 or 10 inch woofers.

I have none, 

So what I did was add another 6 FR to pad up the bass 60ish hz region, the DLVX 8 hits maybe 50hz, says 40hz on the specs, but I have no idea.

VS's dual 10's give  rock solid bass for hard hitting muisc.

I listen to soft,  classical, dont need dual woofers. 

All dual woofers is going to do is add ohms to the demand on the amp's power.

My Defy could handel a  woofer, but not with

dual FR + dual tweeters( 2nd T arriving this week)

8 ohms x 4 on a  8 watt 2A3PP , already with 3 8ohms the outs are warming up  a  bit. adding another T might take the lil DHT PP to its very limit.

AS I say my Defy could handle the VS .

But again, dual woofers have no use for my music and small rm parimeters.

The Duo FR + duo T's, will accomandate any size room, and any size amp, ,,well, if its a  flea watt amp, 1-5 watts, better have nice trans, nothing cheap like in my Yaqin 2A3 amp.

Lets take a  look at VS4 specs,, be right back......