The best speaker you ever heard?

First place goes to Karmas with a close second to Intuitive Design Denali.

Mdhoover, This hobby is still lots of fun.

Source IS the most important part of a system but a system is still a collection of all its parts. It is NOT true that the system is only as good as its weakest link. The weakest link is only the smartest place to spend money. Once the source is pretty darn good then other things including the speakers will make big differences even though a better source will always make a big difference. The problem is that most people can't listen to original master tapes which stomp any table or CD I have heard.

I never likes Krell and Levinson on Apogee's The best I ever heard was hybrid amps like David Berning or New York Audio Labs. Also heard Meitner amps sound good on them and an old VSP TransMos amp. Jeff Rowland isn't bad on them but could never get away from the fact the instruments always sounded like they were connected to aluminum foil.

Klipsch Cornwalls do the dynamics without having to buy $80,000. in amps but they can't do anything else right and in fact do some things worse than anything on the market outside of Bose. If dynamics is the only thing you need to convince you it is live, then they are for you. I can't get past the fact that the horns run at 40% distortion and have the imaging of a victrolla.

Larry, didn't mean to upset you. I was pointing out that there are several ingredients to a live performance that remind us of the event. When a sound system reproduces the one or two things that are most important to you then you are happy and to people that like Klipsch it's dynamics. I am cursed with the fact that it takes 15 ingredients for me and when that is the case it costs tens of thousands to get dynamics with it.

I have been listening to equipment that is so good for so long that almost everything on the market is not good enough. Nothing personal.

By the way, you don't have to know how to spell to listen to music. I went to public school. :-)