The best speaker you ever heard?

I'm using a totally upgraded ASR Emitter 2 Exclusive version blue and my digital source is an Ayre QB9 DAC with High Diamond interconnects and speaker cable. My analogue is an ASR Mini Basis Exclusive but only with a Thorens TD-145 turntable with a Grado mono mm cartridge and an old Pioneer Tuner from 1971 but in mint++++. I started running out of money at some point.

HALLMARK OF A GREAT SPEAKER. There are 4000 speaker companies worldwide. Ony 10% of those companies make their speaker cabinets and driver's in house. Out of those 10%/400 companies, only a handful rise to the top as the best sounding speakers, since they all use the same parameters. Very heavy multi-layered cabinets with internal ladder or cascading braces, isolated chambers for each of the drivers, and multiple crossovers with large power caps. Magico's top models use capacitors the size of a coke can. Awesome to look at. The final part is a damn good anechoic chamber with state of the art measuring equipment that will result in a razor flat frequency response top to bottom. When deciding on the right amount of amplifier power, find out from the engineers at the speaker company whats the maximum continuous power limit that the drivers and crossovers can handle and divide by two. If they say a 1000 watts, use a 500 watt amp. Remember, not short term peaks but continuous power. This will greatly reduce heat in the voice coils and crossover components and they will operate at cooler temperature's resulting in the best performance from your speaker and eliminate clipping.

Don't disagree with Audio Zen, very few make their own drivers.

For me all about the drivers. Great drivers are still hard to come by.

Brad

I did some tweaks to my new Bose 901's that made them sound MUCH..BETTER !!

I took off the front and back grills because these grills just COLORS the SOUND TOO MUCH !..

With these grills off these speakers sound cleaner and much more open and more realistic too !

Another tweak I did to these speakers was putting some self-adhesive foam insulation around the front speaker driver. Everything now sounds SOOO SPOOKY REAL now !!

These speakers now don't sound anything like they used to sound, it's a night and day difference now ! I think these 901's would get a lot more love if they only knew how good these speakers can sound with these tweaks !!

I now love these 901's with most of the speaker drivers facing the front wall !!...

Hifisoundguy, I first heard the Bose 901s in late 1968, I think right after they were introduced. My dealer said that I would want to trade my Advents in. I listened briefly and he asked if I wanted to trade. I said absolutely not. I said they bounce sound all over but sound nothing like a real performance. About six months later, he stopped carrying them.