I may upgrade the front end including amplifiers from time to time but I will keep my speaker as long as it works.
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.
http://stereotimes.com/speak112410.shtml
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?
http://http//stereotimes.com/images/dst_01a.gif
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.
http://stereotimes.com/speak112410.shtml
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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To prof1 You have a relevant point. it is easier to keep it forever but not that likely to use it until you die. I had used Thiel for 3 years about 30 years ago. But I sold it when I need to move across the Continent. |
@shadorne7
Over my dead body! I will never change my main speakers. https://www.fidelitysoundandvision.co.uk/atc-el150asl-active-el-150a-sl-3441-p.asp# Your speakers look nice! It will be hard to find better choice for you. |
@duckworp Thanks a lot for your compliment on my speaker. You had gone through 15 speakers in 15 months. Unbelievable! I agree with you on the advantage of active subwoofer. Martin Logan is having success mating planar with active subwoofer. If Lansce speaker dies before me, then I may go to Martin Logan. |
You can go for Kharma Exquisite at a valuation point. Lansche 3.1 is a small one to play classical music, Also, you can go for Evolution Audio MM2 https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lis952a1-evolution-acoustics-mm-2-speakers-mint-customer-trade-in-... You do not need to rush into buying amplifiers. There are many good ones. |
Some prefer to change speakers but I am willing to change only front end and amplifiers. It is up to individual choice. About 15 years ago, I had been happy with Avalon Ascent for 2 years. Then one audio dealer offered to give me deep discount over the purchase of Wilson Watt and Puppy 6 which I swallowed. But it was disaster. I do not mean that Wilson Audio is bad in general, but Watt and Puppy 6 were too critical to my ears at my listening room and sold it at loss after 6 months. Since then I had been more careful to change speakers. In addition, I am happy with overall strength of Lansche 4.1. Its plasma tweeter is best period. |
@inna Plasma Tweeters are pretty sensitive to all the upstream signals so they can be affected by power cables and speaker cables. I am using cables costing 300-2000$ after long auditions. I had plasma tweeters replaced twice during 11 years of use. Mr Henry Dien of Lansch Audio had it done at reasonable cost. |
Last month I acquired a very first pair of custom made Grandinote Mach 36's from Italy. They are literally serial numbers 0001 and 0002. They retail for about $180,000. They are paired with a Naim system: a 500 amp, a 552 preamp, and a 555CD player, with Luna cables. On top of that, the owner and chief engineer of the company, Masimiliano Magri (better known as Max) just came to my house on Long Island, New York, to fine tune them! It is inconceivable that I would ever want to listen to anything else. Check out the reviews of the Grandinote gear from the Munich show last year. BTW.....if any of you are local and want to give them a listen while sipping a fine dram of some scotch whisky, get back to me at pennpalmitch@gmail.com.
It will be nice to get such exotic speakers. I would be happy to join you if I live near New York, but I am living on the other side. I wish you be happy with the speaker for your life. |
It had a very natural soundstage and nuanced details. It is very nice for you to keep your Apogee Scintillas for your life. I hope you enjoy it for your life. Thomas |
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Von Schweikert VR-4s is a nice speaker. If you like it, you do not need to change speakers. I had a sweet offer for Wilson Watt Puppy 6 from one of dealer around me 20 years ago. I swapped Avalon Ascent II which I had been happy. The result was somewhat disaster, the sound from Wilson was too bright for my taste. I was forced to sell it to get B&W 801. |
@cd318 You are right once it reach certain level, it is hard to improve. 200K$ system that I heard at dealers’s ahowroom 3 days ago in Korea does sound less musical than my humble system (total paid cost around 100K$). But 300K$ vintage Western Electric Horn system that I had heard twice last week in Seoul, Korea blew me away with natural dynamics and sound stage. Now I got into trouble. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/are-you-ready-to-dive-for-your-dream-speaker-which-cost-300k |
@folkfreak I agree with you in that there is always room for improvement in any system. But law of diminishing return applies here, there is no way to justify the cost of 90K$ MSB Select II in my system although it will give subtle improvement in details, soundstage and etc. But Vintage horn Western Electric system is just another league above from all modern speakers in natural dynamics to justify its cost. |
@ atmasphere Wow your Classic Audio Loudspeakers loo fantastic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_cqeuogxc0 Is there any place in US to audition them? I expect you enjoy it for your life. |
Lansche Audio Lansche Plasma 4.1 | Full-Range | Covina, California 91724 | Audiogon This looks exactly same as mine,although I do not have mine on sale. The speaker is a real beauty (nice WAF) and work well with SET amp even in good size listening room due to high efficiency (off 99db/w, real 95db/w still pretty high). If you have nice SET and spare 17,500$, you can enjoy spooky vocal out of it due to plasma tweeter. It also give excellent dynamics due to two active 10 inch woofers. |
I had listened to Magico M9 about two hours ago in private audition.
M9 is the best modern speaker that I had ever heard.
After attending Pacific Audiofest 2022, 2023 and Seoul Audiofest, there are some nice speakers that draw my attention.
But none match natural and relaxed presentation of M9.
Of course I noticed no dynamic limitation playing Bruckner "Ressurection".
This could be real end game speaker if you can afford it.
Thomas |
This one is not original Western field coil system but replica made in Japan.
Magico M9 sounds like the best top grade whiskey with no faults at all. |
I visited one of die hard vintage audiophile living in Korea yesterday. |
I was back to my favorite vintage shop at Seoul Friday.
I wish to get original Western field horn system before I die.😀 |
After being back to my home in Washington State, I pleayed my Scaena 3.2 augmented by pair of Rel 31 subwoofers. |