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
VMPS RM/X with Analysis Plus internal wire and TRT crossover capacitors. Passively biamped with Jeff Rowland 302/4 and sourced with dCs Verdi/Purcell/Elgar DSD stack. Powered with BPT 3.5 Signature. Pure Note Cerulean XLR interconnect, custom Acoustic Zen Hologram mk2 "Double Barrel Shotgun" speaker cables with 7n silver, and BMI Whale Supreme power cords. Room treatment by Acoustics First.

Second place: Apogee Diva with Muse 18 subwoofers, DAX3, Krell MDA-500 amps, Sonic Frontiers Trans3/Proc3 & Line3.
Eric:

I am hoping you will post the pictures and overview of your system.

best regards
diva

I've saw Eric's system at the audiocircleforum, If I recall...The Diva-Muse system was a system he owned before he switched to Vmps RM-40's which he has sold off to upgrade to the Vmps RM/X system he now owns.

He has? some pictures posted at that forum a while ago and may have posted more sense I saw those, don't know.

Dave
Revel Salons. I'm a drummer, been one for 40 years, so I can say that I know what a drumset sounds like. Drums encompass the entire frequency spectrum- bass drum on the bottom, toms through the mids, and cymbals on the top with very high transients. Salons are the only speaker I have heard that reproduce a drumset the way it sounds to me (not necessarily when I'm playing them, but when I am out in front listening to another drummer playing.) And of course, it does a great job with the other instruments that I play with - guitars, keys, etc.