The best speaker you ever heard?

Venture speakers. ANY venture speakers. Why? Smooth, detailed, dynamic, allow the the finest electronics to strut their stuff. And most importantly, they allow an emotional connection AND and analytical connection to happen. Pure music with Venture speakers and S.O.T.A. electronics.

Zu Definition Mk4 that I currenly own. I have owned over 300 different speakers over the last 30 years.

Has anyone ever taken score on this thread...the top 10 speakers from this post?

Gandme, I sure this would be tied to the number of each speaker sold, but what is the causality? Would you buy something because it was popular?

When I read the comments about the Bose 901s, I thought it must be sarcasm. I remember being in Sound Associates in Bowling Green, Ohio in about 1974. We went there to listen to the Infinity QRS speakers with Audio Research and GAS electronics, along with a Linn LP12. After some listening, a salesman I wasn't familiar with came into the room and asked if we would like to hear the Bose, which were suspended from the ceiling,

When he switched them on, my friend and I looked at each other like, "OK... what's the joke?" They were, without question, the worst "high end" speaker I had heard then and until this day. I'm not an electrical engineer, but how someone would expect a relatively small box enclosure with nine equally sized midrange speakers to reproduce the entire audio spectrum seemed an impossible task.

I will NEVER forget that experience.

On the plus side, the Magnepan Tympanis, back in 1978, were probably the speakers that really got me started in high end audio. Matched with an Audio Research D-79 and SP-6 pre, again with a Linn table, was audio nirvana at that time. Probably would still sound pretty decent.