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The best speaker you ever heard?

In my opinion, the speaker is by far the most important part of the audio system. After all, it is the only part you hear. OK, the other stuff really matters a lot, but without a great speaker... No go.

I am a bit 'speaker-obsessed' I guess, and now I am wondering: What are the best speakers you have ever heard, and what made them the best?
njonker
calloway
874 posts
 
piega p10s...have owned ref vr5s hse.merlin vsm,heard dunlavy Vs,quad 989s, vansderstein 5s,revel salons,b&w 801s,wilson watt puppys,ceramique 1s,eggleston andras,ariels and others twice as expensive and all fall far short of the p10s.
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kirk930
285 posts
 
i think you are wrong saying the speakers or most important. the amps are more important.
detlof
1,899 posts
 
Quads and Sound Labs.
gregm
3,405 posts
 
Looking back at this thread, I wonder at the validity of my suggestion(s). Speakers, being at the end of the chain, are definitively system dependent -- apart from their inherent engineering quality, ofcourse.

I wonder whether I have really *heard* giga speakers I have listened to play at their utmost... (commensurate source, pre, power, etc). At the end of the day, I think not.

To do justice to the thread, I should revise my post from months back to read: speakers I have heard playing better the best tunes I remember" -- i.e. NOT the BEST, just better than my personal (benchmark) system.

Cheers!
tubeguy4599a9
15 posts
 
So far the Wisdom Audio D-75 and they make a larger Model the RUSH.
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