Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre?

Who's Rich Timbre?  Never heard of the guy.

@cd318

“@dracule1 seems to be a very elusive master of disguise popping up only very rarely in audio circles.”

Hmm...I have 5x more posts than you.  

@cd318 Ah, my bad. Rich Timbre is very well known to Harbeth, Daedalus, Quad ESL 57, Apogee (if set up right), Divore Fidelity, Hyperion (now almost if not defunct), etc.  Not as elusive as you thought.

@atmasphere 
I generally try to ignore your posts because many times you indirectly seem to be hawking your own amps. But I have interject here in protest of your negative statement about 4 ohm speakers. I owned on of your amps in the past and very aware of their limitations. Namely, your amps don’t do well with speakers that are 4 ohms or less.  But it doesn’t mean other great amps have this limitation.  In fact, some of the greatest speakers made are 4 ohm or less and are inefficient  (Apogee and Magnepan are few examples).  Paired to proper amp, these speakers can sound unbelievably real.  Sorry, Atmasphere amps paired with Classic horn speakers always sounded colored and unreal to me despite your claims.

Your argument that apogee would sound better if it were higher impedance is false based on imperial evidence.  Case in point the 1 ohm Schintilla sounded better than 4 ohm Schintilla, as long as you could find an amp that could drive 1 ohm load.  

Sorry, but those Classic speakers driven by your amps never sound correct to me. However, I do remember your amp sounding fantastic on Mirage M1s back in the early 90’s.

invictus005, I believe most will disagree with you including myself. Bass grip is not the end all for an amplifier design. I auditioned the Devialet, and it doesn’t have the harmonic richness of most tube amps or the best solid state amps.

Atmasphere, seems like you’re claiming no amplifier designer knows how to design an amp that will be just as good driving a 4 ohm load as driving an 8 ohm load. Am I correct? I don’t think you speak for all amplifier designers out there.

Apogee did “magically” make a 1 ohm and 4 ohm version of the Scintilla.  There are other speaker manufacturers who make different impedance versions of the same model (eg, Tekton).