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 

I agree with you in that synergy is important.

Some speakers seems to be power hungry with low impedance despite high efficiency.

You will never know the synergy until you try yourself at your home.

Blind shopping could be hit or miss.
No. I thought I'd be content with a recently  acquired pair of reference 3A Veenas - based on my de Capo BE's I had a while ago. 

But it they're too warm and dark for my taste. Beautiful imaging; just not what I'm looking for.

maybe Spatials in my future? 
@thejpd

Your   Exemplar XL- IV loudspeaker looks very nice with high efficiency.

Mated with nice SET tube amp, it will sound wonderful.

Enjoy it.
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.