The best speaker you ever heard?

Norm

The Nextel paint finish and the flocking material on the entire front speaker baffle are control materials. Both materials seal a bad sounding mdf cabinet from venting its form of bad sound into a listening room. These 2 materials sonically made these same speakers disappear. I thought highly of Jon looking for something different than the standard solution. This was circa 1984. Tom

Tom, my experience was between 1976 and 1978 so I guess we are talking about different speakers.

Not sure which is "best" but my all time favorites I have heard are my current OHM F5 series 3, mbl 111e, and Magico Mini II, Totem Mani 2, or most any model Dynaudio for smaller monitors, if not smaller OHM Microwalsh as an option to those.

Norm

In my first post about this subject the first paragraph referred to the DQ10's which were a break thru in in time aligned and phase aligned speakers. When Jon used separate baffles he may have only by chance hit upon a way to reduce unwanted vibration "drowning" the music. He partially achieved this again by taking the crossover out board. The DQ10's had wooden feet or an optional wooden stand.

The second reference speaker was the DQ9 when Jon applied the Nextel to block the bad sound of MDF and then putting a flocking material on the front baffle he succeeded in remaking this speaker. Maybe these were all accidental and with no clear cut understanding of why but the outcome of vibration reduction was made more apparent by Jon Dahlquist. I can write about these speakers and materials because they made an impression upon me and gave me direction to pursue and better understand resonance control methods. Tom