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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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ctsooner
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I've only owned a handful of speakers since I started at age 9 (1969).  My current and probably last speakers are Vandersteen Quatro's. I absolutely love them.  Every time I hear them with better electronics, they keep scaling to new heights.  More than pleased with the speakers as well as the service.  Richard V is always there to answer any questions I may have and Johnny Rutan at Audio Connection has also exceeded my expectations.  I have plenty of dealers around me, but I'm glad that I was in NJ many years ago as I wasn't even thinking of Vandy's.  

Lot's of great choices, but I like speakers and electronics that don't come out with a new model every three years.  
ctsooner
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Yes, too many folks equate efficiency to driving speakers.  Current and control are key.  This is why you can have synergy with a speaker adn amp that 'seems' under powered, but really isn't.  You can also have a bad match just hooking up some behemoth amp with a speaker at say 85db efficient.  This is why I hate reading threads where folks make real life decisions on gear from specs.  It's just crazy.  Starting point maybe, but any good speaker designer will tell you to listen to an amp with their speakers before saying it's under powered.  Some like specific amp designs like zero feedback etc..., but in the end, it's still personal taste.
ctsooner
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Tomic, as much as I LOVE my Quatro's, I need Richard's M5 to make them sing even more ;)....

I have to say that I got to hear the full System 9 by Vandersteen (7's with sub 9's) and his large amp.  (yes, the preamp will be very special and not what anyone has on the market as you know).

As for server, call me tomorrow if you can.  I am very dialed into the digital as I can't do analog anymore with the MS.  To hard to keep cleaning and getting up to use the tone arm.  That's why I sold y9u the Basis TT ;). man I miss it.
ctsooner
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This has been the longest I’ve had speakers from the same company. Went from Vandersteen Treo’s to the Quatro’s and will never look back. I’m in heaven daily. Most of my friends are constantly changing out speakers etc. so glad to be off the hamster wheel. 

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