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
The room heard in has to play a big part in allowing the best speakers heard to reach their potential.

How many of us have rooms like the ones that these larger best speakers in particular were heard in?

So just a word of advice to focus on getting the speakers matched to your room and system rather than on what you hear in somebody else's room. You can reach you own optimal sound a lot faster and likely for less as well that way.
Mapman, the best should excel in at least one kind of music. Until my tidals, my other 29 speaker systems had one virtue or another. Some were fast using compression drivers, some had outstanding sound stages, some had excellent midrange, some had great bass, and some had a sweet extended top end, but none did all of these.


I would expect any speaker worth considering as the best to be able to do all types of music pretty darn well otherwise I would question how it can be called "the best".
So true. Balancing the entire system... electronics, speakers, cabling, and room acoustics will make the "best".