The best speaker you ever heard?

I agree with Paimei,
The PSB Synchrony One floorstander can compete with speakers mulitples of its price - its midrange is that good.

Sonus Faber Fenice. I heard them only briefly at a dealer playing a large orchestra and chorus. Positive: realism, effortlessness. Negative: limited production and price at about 140k euros. Ask for a pair for Christmas and don't forget a good front end. For the real world: Sonus Faber Guarneri Mementos.

Evolution Acoustics Model MMTwo with Dartzeel gear! Sounds as good as LIVE MUSIC!..

Hifisoundguy,

As ridiculous as this may seem, i "heard" the Evolution Acoustics with DArtzeel reference monoblocks which were recorded by Albert Porter at the recent Electronics show...i think he recorded 30 rooms using the same equipment. As crazy as this sounds, the Evolution Acoustics room was the only one where the soundbyte actually sounded like Albert recorded a live event and streamed it over the internet. aside from 2 other presentations, everything else sounded like a stereo in a room.

i would never say i have heard the Evolution Acoustics, but i will say i am intrigued enough based on this one soundbyte to say that it would not surprised me if these speakers ranked up there for me at "top 3-5" based on my readings, speaking to a few folks who own them and also this one soundbyte in comparison to all the other soundbytes of the show. it really sounded like someone streaming music from a concerthall.

how familiar are you with these speakers? would love to get your thoughts in more detail on them!

MY Audio Physic Avanti IIIs. They're substantially improved, with LOTS-better parts in the MR/treble crossover (including LARGE Teflon-film caps in series with the tweeter) and the bass filter removed and replaced by active filtering from a dbx DriveRackPA and a separate pair of Marantz monoamps driving the bass. The MR drivers now have NO hi-pass caps between them and the poweramps, while a much-smaller-than usual coupling cap in the MR/tweeter amps reduces the bass energy to the MR drivers. Excellent Audioquest speakercable is soldered to the x-over boards, and chunks of that AQ speakercable replace the inexpensive stranded cable within the cabinets. An antidiffraction pad by diffractionbegone.com around the tweeter completes the large improvements in the treble.

Best speaker ever? Certainly not. Best I've heard long-term? Absolutely.

See http://jeffreybehr.zenfolio.com/p610729623 for more info.
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