Is there a perfect speaker?

Mate - regardless of what you spend there is no perfect speaker.

Even if you spend a lot more than you are spending you will find the speaker art slowly but surely keeps progressing.

I thought my speakers were the bees knees and better than any other speaker I had heard. Then I visited the factory of the guy that made them and heard a speaker that blew it away. And he has some even wilder speakers in the pipeline and I have ordered those. I doubt even that will be the end - he, and other manufacturers, will make even better ones.

The problem is once you hear something better other stuff sounds rather ordinary which is a real bugger.

What to do about it? Keep listening to speakers and upgrade as finances permit - that's pretty much all you can really do.

Thanks
Bill

A perfect speaker is the one with zero harmonic distortion, ruler flat frequency response from 0Hz to 100KHz (some may argue it needs to go even higher), zero phase shift, 360 degree uniform dispersion, unlimited dynamic range, 100% linearity and 100% efficiency.

At the current state of technology, no speaker even come remotely close to any of these properties and I doubt I will see one in my lifetime.

Sidssp~ Even then there are some who would still prefer Bose.

In order to find the Perfect speaker , one must have the Perfect listening room , and 100% pure AC inlet power. Good luck.

What everyone else said. Speakers more than some other parts of the chain, all have mutually exclusive choices. I love my Daedalus DA-RMas and the test, as others have said, is that I don't want to stop listening and wonder sometimes, what better, would sound like. Are they perfect, no, by going for high sensitivity, you have to lose some base extension. That's fine by me, it means I can use low powered SET and other Class A amps that I like.

Some of the top brands of "High end", mega expensive speakers, unlistenable, for any length of time. I'm not criticising, but am thinking of Wilson and Focal speakers here. They just are'nt for me.

If there is a message, when you've found what your looking for, stop looking and enjoy.