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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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fleschler
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Never say never.  I've had my Legacy Focus speakers for 20 years now, always improving with new cables and tweaks.  I went through Acoustat Xs, 2&2s and Martin Logan Monolith 3s in the prior 15 years.  I do not want to revisit electrostats. My next speaker could be a Von Scweikert VR55 (or Ultra 9) or Lumenwhite Kyara or some other $50-60K speaker, maybe used even. 

I'm 62 and hoping to live a long time (and my hearing is excellent).   I should be able to afford a better built speaker (the original Focus isn't SOTA).  The question remains how much better a speaker I can buy for $50-60K when I can afford it in the near future.  And, I only want an efficient speaker, no Magico, Wilson, B&W, etc.  They are off my wish list.  I've also enjoyed some horn speakers but don't think I can live with them.  
fleschler
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My Legacy Signature IIIs were purchased using a 16 watt Sherwood 7100 receiver (it killed his 200 watt Boulder amp due to an electrical mismatch with an his tube preamp).  Also sounds dynamic with punchy bass using a Yamaha R620 30 watt receiver.  Both have good current control of speakers.  My EAR 890 can't control the bass on my larger Legacy Focus which have 96 db efficiency.  Turns out that they go down to 2.8 ohms in the bass with six 12" woofers.  EAR 890 works great on the Signature IIIs with a 3.2 ohm 94 db efficiency and six 10" woofers.   Mating the amp to the speaker is essential.
fleschler
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skhkong78  Thanks about the upgrading components.  Once I placed the Signature IIIs in my living room, it was mated to a voltage regulated (non-ultralinear) redesigned Dynaco ST70 with tremendous bass and original Mullard EL34 output tubes.  Also, a custom made subminiature tube voltage regulated preamp and a custom rebuilt CD player.  This is my secondary system, small and great.  Oregonpapa on these forums has the Signature IIIs as his primary speaker and they sound fantastic in his smaller room than my Focus which are in my large listening room.   Both speakers are a bargain used, probably because they are 25 year old models.   But so easy to make sound great compared to expensive new high end speakers for larger rooms.
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