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Can you live with your current speaker until you die?

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Yes I can!

In my 40 years of history I had gone through around 15 speakers including

ADS, Altec Lansing, Thiel, Canton, Apogee Duetta Signature(10years), BMW 801, Avalon Ascent, Wilson Audio Watt and Puppy6.



I settled at Pacific Northwest area located just midway between Seattle and Vancouver BC around 6 years ago.

It has a nice western view of Bay and Pacific Ocean with 2 acres lot.

I could play music loud during midnight with no problem to my neighbors as long as I close the windows.


With vaulted big space, my Lansche 4.1 speakers makes a beautiful voice out of classical, Jazz or even new age music.

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I had been living with the speaker since 2007.

I do not claim that Lansche 4.1 is the best speaker in the world.

But with clean and pristine treble out of plasma tweeters and pretty good bass out of 2 10 inch driven by internal active amplifier and high efficiency (99db spec, but I believe it to be around 93db), it is hard to find better speaker with overall merit for my house.


The only catch is that it can stop working since it is an active speaker( plasma tweeter and active bass unit).

But I keep having good communication with Henry Dien of Lansche Audio who upgraded plasma tweeters twice at reasonable cost.

I can happily live with Lansche 4.1 speakers at my present house for my life unless serious health issues happen to either me or my speakers.

How about you gentlemen and ladies?

Had any one of you found the speaker for your life?


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cd318
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Once you get to a certain level you can only go sideways, trading one quality for another.

The real trick is to know what you line best and what you dislike most. I love purity of tone the most and find coarse treble painful. So 8 years later I'm still with Tannoy DCs, but as prof said, an audiophile can never truly say never.

Especially when there's wood cone speakers out there, ribbon tweeters, plasma tweeters(!?), open baffles, active  designs etc

Besides who knows what fabulous designs and technologies that supercomputers of the near future will be churning out in a few years?
cd318
2,636 posts
 
beetlemania,

"I haven't heard everything but from what I *have* heard I think I would need to spend >$25K to get something notably better."


Yes, this is the one big obstacle most of us run up against sooner or later. 

I'm still hoping that <£10K will get me to as near to the state of the art as I will need. 

So many possibilities but I'm beginning to feel that the Linkwitz LX521.4 might well be my ultimate loudspeaker destination, especially after learning on here that such things as 12 channel amplifiers exist!

I just wish the looks didn't spook me.

http://www.linkwitzlab.com/LX521/LX521_4.htm 
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