Top brand speakers

Mrc's right. We were just having a bit of fun. (at least I was). Your first post looks like a classic question designed just to get people arguing. After reading your 2nd post, that's obviously not the case. I can't tell you what the best is, buy my personal favorite is Vandersteen. There's plenty of other brands that are great as well. You just need to do some listening to find out what you like best.

To echo Mrc and Zd, yeah we were having fun. Don't consider Bose ever as a speaker worthy of having. Its overpriced, plastic junk. But I stand by my assertion that it truly is the Top Brand!

In terms of sales and sadly, public perception, 9 out of 10 people do not know nor care about quality audio, yet they are all aware of Bose. This is due to their massive and brilliant marketing campaigns. So its the Top Brand.

Your question is kind of difficult to answer. We would really need to have some idea of budget and more importantly, application - multi-channel HT or 2 channel Music? IMO, most speakers can do movies in HT applications but not all can do music. Because of the overwhelming popularity of HT systems, especially being bought by non-audiophiles, the top brands are different than those being used by 2 channel folks. If I were to give a list, the brands would be grouped under these two applications.

Just keep reading, learning and most important - when your ready to pull the trigger, go out and listen for yourself. Audition, audition, audition! Good luck brother.

Thanks for the advises fellas. I would like to have a system capable of high quality sound both in movies and music. As there are so many receivers, proccessors which coast thousands of dollars I think they should be good enough for both.

As a source - at the moment I use mostly DAC (PC HD audio using optic connection) but don't know if that is sufficient enough to play it on a high-end system. When a day comes to buy a new system I would probably use it also - most of the media I use is on my PC :) Rarely there would be any external bluray or other..

Any suggestions about my old Creative Gigawors S750 - the build in amp was class D, I think the speakers are still good to use with an nice extarnal one, but what exactly? :)

you will get 5000 answers to that....if you live in an area with audio shops, preferably not big box stores, spend some time in them just listening to the kind of music you like. much of what is written here is esoteric cra* posted by seekers who are always looking for some magic alchemy. if it is gonna be a hobby that is one thing but if you just want a system you like then check out different styles and buy the one you prefer and spend your time listening to the music. otherwise welcome to the rabbit hole of 'audiophiles'

It depends Always about the price. There are exeptional good speakers in every single price range compared to their competitors.

I sold Bose in the past. They are one of the best in advertising. But....my colleagues and I found it the worst brand in queality we sold compare to the other speakers we sold. You don't need the best quality to sell a lot.

The biggest problem in audio is that many audio lovers are not aware of the different properties of all the parts in their set.

When I did visit many sets in a period of 2 years. ( sets from 8000 till 180.000 Dollar) I was usrprised that the endresult of most of these sets was not that good.

Even the epensive highend sets were not that convincing. These days many of them buy things from the internet.

When they send me an email with all the parts of their set I knew already that it could not work.

The properties togheter make the sound and the image. And the acoustics. When it does not fit perfectly you need to adapt it. This is what you don't want.

Audio is a lot more difficult to get a stunning endresult. But only a stunning endresult gives you a sound you want to listen every single day! This is how Audio should be.