Most agreed upon best speaker?


Which speaker is considered one of the greats by more music lovers? Price point irrelevant since some speakers outperform their peers of the same price category.
I'll start with Alexandria's and mbl's.
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Showing 3 responses by ihcho

Those who cared for reading this "best speaker" thread, do you care more for the sound or music? I suspect that the former is the majority.
Whenever I feel an urge to upgrade my audio systems, my wife jokes me that I care more for the sound than the music itself.
Doh! How true!
"Audiophiles like modern speakers...Music Lovers like vintage speakers!"

I think, audiophiles are sound lovers. They constantly like to try new gears for better sound (which may not necessarily end up being better, but just different)
Music lovers focus on music, spending lots of time on listening to music (either at home or at concerts).

Audiophiles tend to be affluent and usually have enough money to spare for gears from time to time, or frequently overspends compared to their income level, sometimes leaving their family in despair. Or yet, skillful and crazy enough to build their own gears at relatively cheap cost, or smart enough to buddy with rich folks who can afford high end gears and enjoy the sound from their buddys' systems.

Many audiophiles are music lovers, but I guess rather small amount of music lovers are audiophiles.

Just my opinion. I would rather say myself a music lover, but trying to be an audiophile with stiff opposition from WAF.
Each upgrade of my gears made me happy since I could hear more and better sound, and the music sound more musical. I don't know when the series of upgrades would stop. It may never stop until I die or get broke.
It is hard to quantify how much someone loves music and/or sound, but to my wife I appear to be more of a sound lover than a music lover. Even though it upsets me to hear that, well, it is hard to dispute her judgment. I am writing this and listening to Wagner's Tirstan Und Isolde, and I feel short of SOUND from my system. Why don't I just enjoy the music as it is now and forget about upgrades!