Best value speakers available

in order for a speaker to be considered a "best value", you must like that speaker. if a particular speaker is considered a good value, but you don't like it, it won't be a good value for you.

if you like a speaker and think the price you are paying for it is worth the pleasure from listening to it it could be a candidate for best value.

given those factors, i would consider quads unlimited quads a good value and the analysis audio omega a good value, as well.

there isn't a "best value" until i have heard all of the commercially available speakers. it is possible that there could be a speaker i prefer to the quads or omegas and so that speaker would be a better value.

hi audiophile1958:

i too was at the show and the venetian, this past january.

i am looking for a speaker system in the $10,000 range.

i briefly visited the nsr room at the alexis park.

in no way did i hear the timbral realism i heard from the analysis audio omega or roger sanders hybrid electrostatic speaker.

conces do not compete with panels with respect to accuracy of timbre, period ! .

hi ron:

i have auditioned the lft 8s, 6s and the earliest, the 3s.

i find with the hybrids, that the cone and planar elements produce two dsitinct sound patterns, perhaps, partly because of the radiating patterns which are unique to each driver type.

there have been reports of a seamless blend between cone and panel, yet, i hear two different speakers.

i don't consider my ears a national treasure, yet i often differ with other audiophiles about the continuity between cones and panels.

is it possible that the recordings i use when evaluating stereo systems makes it possible for me to observe the discontinuity between panel or cones, or is there another explanation ?