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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
hifisoundguy
630 posts
 
Travbrow , I had some used Quad ESL 988's before the Bose 901's.

These modified 901's are taking a very very long time to break-in really good. As the months go by the total balance is getting more refined and its no telling how much longer its going to take to sound their very best.
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drubin
3,275 posts
 
I'd give them a good 18-20 years.
vmhf
52 posts
 
Being an owner of these speakers, I am biased of course, they are the best speakers I have ever heard. They just get out of the way of the music.

Not full range but the midrange is almost perfect to my ears. A little subwoofer augmentation puts these up against anything on the market IMHO.
oldcar63
145 posts
 
I believe 25 to 30 years to be safe.
hifisoundguy
630 posts
 
I was wondering why it was taking my modified BOSE 901's SOOO long to breaking-in really good and found out it was the glue coated dust caps !

I took my finger and pushed around on the dust caps until most of the dried glue stiffness was gone and then the dried glue came off pretty easy...so anyone trying this tweak, DO NOT put glue on the dust caps!

Now these speakers have a near perfect total balance...a must try tweak for these 901's !..

WOW...if only BOSE made them like this many years ago they would be a H*ll of lot more raves about these 901's !!...
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