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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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doni
354 posts
 

I haven’t read all of this, but do you know who you’re talking to?

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mschott
132 posts
 

It all depends on my financial status. I love my Paradigm Studio 100’s especially since I added a JL Audio E112 sub but if somehow I become wealthy they will be gone. Not sure for what but I’d upgrade my entire system. 

ctsooner
2,480 posts
 

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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shkong78 OP
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@mschott

https://youtu.be/uzKz1TF35Ug

I had not listened to M9 yet.

But I will have a chance next weekend at Seoul, Korea.

I am going there to celebrate first birthday of my granddaughter.

 

The total system to drive 750k $ speaker will cost 1 million $ at least.

 

Even if I like it, I would not jump at it unless I win big lottery.😁

 

Thomas

elliottbnewcombjr
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Oh Yeah. Done, with Spare Vintage Parts downstairs. Die with them, none too soon please!

It was the sound of these speakers/drivers that got me thoroughly hooked in 1971. Came in a 1958 Fisher Console, President II, I inherited from my uncle.

8" high bronze base, 15" woofers faced down.

I’ve moved the drivers/level controls/crossover into a few different enclosures over the years, now their final: Custom Rosewood.

My Woodworker had been saving a small flitch of matched Brazilian Rosewood, just enough to do the job. New Import of Brazilian Rosewood was banned by then.

Original design, no ports. For open space, no wall behind (prior location) I open the tuned rear port (Enclosure and tuned rear port designed with the help of Electro-voice Engineers). Current space, I plugged the rear ports.

Here is a shot face down, back off. No special bracing, but no vibration. Tops are slightly slanted and I put many of Donna’s precious things on top. I verify the drivers are tight annually.

The Horn’s drivers are linen, phenolic coated, essentially indestructible, and the 15" woofer paper cone has vintage cloth surround, hard to find, I re-coned them twice myself and have spare cones and full set of spare drivers for the future. All drivers are Electro-Voice 16 ohm

The Original Electro-Voice 3 way crossover is components in tar in a sealed metal can. Custom Crossover builders tell me to leave them alone.

I put new 16 ohm L-Pads Level Controls recently.

Incredibly efficient, came with Fisher 30 wpc mono tube amps, I have driven them with 8 wpc tubes; fisher 500c 35wpc tubes; McIntosh 300 wpc SS, now Cayin 45 wpc tubes, AT88 version one with 16 ohm taps (sadly bias adjust is internal).

Balancing the speaker’s in the room with the level controls, sound pressure meter, tripod, test tracks is hard, tedious, but very rewarding when done right.

Everybody knows by now that I think speakers should come with level controls, to adjust the speakers IN THE SPACE they will be heard. Precise stepped L-Pads would be easier than my step-less rotary ones.

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