The best speaker you ever heard?

if there is no best, because "best" does not exist in audio, then, i suppose the word "favorite" should be substituted. this is not a subtle distinction.

whenever the word best is used as a descriptor, it implies some standard for judging. for every judge, there could be a different standard, so the term best is subjective and is really one's favorite.

i believe there have been many threads in the past dealing with the subject of favorite component.

my point in all this is to suggest that "best" is a misued term that usually does not have much usefulness.

end of philosophizing.

if there is no best, because "best" does not exist in audio, then, i suppose...

Suppose if MrTennis posts his views but no one reads them, do the views exist?

Reading MrT's posts, I believe, is a very satisfying experience. Self satisfying that is! :-)

Most professors love to publish. Even if they have to pay for the publication themselves and print only a few works. Hard habit to break. Then they retire. And this forum is free. Unfortunately you can't equate eagerness to publish with having something of public interest.

Give the guy a break - we all pack it in sooner or later. Maybe you're next!

MrT never fails to delight me. In one sense he always points out the obvious. We would have to be utter fools or simply nutheads not to know, that most of our judgements are subjective, in another sense he is just a tad off the mark, because if we take unamplified, live music as as our benchmark, (pace TEE, I know also this could be argued to be subjective ) then that piece of gear which renders a sound closest to this, lets music come forth as close as possible to REAL music, can - within the range of the speakers we are familiar with - truly be considered "best" among its rivals.
I've just listended to Dr. Roger West's latest Ultimate speakers. They are not my "favourites", because being so huge, they visually screw up my listening room, however they came closer to the real thing than anything I've heard so far with all different kinds of music, both digital and analog. Not absolute best of course, because I haven't listened to all speaker systems on earth, but certainly the best of all stators ever and closer to real music than anything I've heard before.

Detlof, don't you have the Excalibers by Acapella?