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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?
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tomryan
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Professor Aubrey Castell, University of Michigan, mid 1970s. Fascinating guy.
ikecarumba
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The best speakers I ever heard are my custom 4-way horns :

Two 1954 Klipschorns with JBL 1504C's below 100 Hz ;

short, straight 1:1 compression ratio exponential-curve horns with 50's vintage JBL 130A's between 100 Hz and 500 Hz ;

round tractrix horns machined from laminated MDF blocks with 60's-vintage JBL 375's between 500 Hz and 10 kHz ;

and 077 ( or 2405 ) supertweeters ( 10 kHz+ ).

The filters are 3-way 4th-order active s.s.. except for the supertweeters', which are 1st order passive - just single Hovland caps.

The amps all use 2A3 triodes : custom ( UTC LS-58's on Webster Electric Hammond organ amps ) ppp x 4 on the Klipschorns ; Brook 12A's on the upper bass, and an A.E.S ( Cary ) SE1 on the mids + tweets.

You can see pics ( plus lots of vintage gear ) at my webpage Vintage Audio Trader's - http://homepage.mac.com/Ikecarumba

Kerry Brown
aka KerrB Vintage Audio Trader
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dimitriou
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itis THE best [ KOROIDO ]
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toddwj
58 posts
 
Wilson Watt Puppy, without question!
chiu2f9a
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Proac D25. I have not heard the higher models in the new response series yet, but the Proacs are really detail, dynamic and sweet at the same time. Very Musical and enjoyable.
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