The best speaker you ever heard?

Best commercial speakers I've heard are the S.A.P. J2001 (with twin 12" woofers), which is why I purchased them. These speakers have a small Onken cabinet for the woofers, a horn midrange that is poised on top of the woofer cabinet, and a Fostex bullet tweeter.

I also like Soundlab U-1s. I've also heard some pretty wild custom systems, one in particular comes to mind. It had a pair of huge Western Electric horns for the midrange that have a throat that is curled like a ram's horn. The owner of this system just set up a new system in a huge dedicated room and uses a pair of $250,000 Gaku-On amps to drive the midrange. I have yet to hear this latest iteration, but I expect it to be something special.

Well,I had the Artemis Eos for 5 years and just upgraded to the new JM Labs Utopia Alto Be.If more high end people knew about the Be tweeter.Everytime I hear it it remindes me of my very first indroduction into the the society of people who are no longer virgins.Peace,Jim

Vandersteen 5a's. Sublime. With multiple Vandersteen 2wq subwoofers and a lot of moneys worth of electronics and cables, simply brings you to tears.

A pair, or even stacked DQ10's. Properly driven and modified these speakers are awesome - the most musical speaker ever. They are exremely revealing and many perceived weaknesses go back to other sources. Work with these a while ansd speaker shopping ends. They really are wonderful. I have heard many larger and more expensive systems but none make me want to give up my 10's.
Too bad John Dahlquist isn't still at the helm.

Hey After_hrs, where do you live, BTW?

The reason I ask is: I once heard the very same combination of Odeon horns driven by Accuphase electronics & Kimber cabling @ a HT place in Coral Springs, FL.
I have to admit that the overall sound was very seductive & romantic. It appealed a lot of my aesthetic senses. Very "palpable" & non-fatiguing. Hrs and hrs could be spent listening to music. It was all about the midrange - almost SET-like.

However, my best is still the M-L Statement E2 (that I posted long ago in this thread) driven by Krell electronics 'cuz it represented a live event in a truer form & it did better justice to the entire freq. spectrum.

Of course, JMHO. FWIW.