The best speaker you ever heard?

Beveridge model X-1 with bass towers, and close the Infinity IRS in a very large room, which I preferred over the big Genesis. I also liked the early Magnaplaner speakers, the Tympani, then I was more impressed back in the early days.

I looked at the Nola Grand, they do look like a very good design.

The infinity IRS I listened to had 16 EMITs per front and back, total of 32.

I later built what I had called the mini-IRS, using 9 EMIMs and 8 per side EMITs. These speakers were way better than the Infinity RS1/A/B, and when I mentioned it to the Infinity people it seemed one company owner thought it was a stupid idea, yet another said the IRS, helped sell the Infinity name and my speaker idea would not be worth its production costs.

This was much nicer than saying my idea was stupid.

My crossover design, simple 2-way, was much better than that complex design used in the large Q and RS models

I was reading, someone had the Infinity IRS as front speakers, and the IRS Beta as surrounds, with, I think, IRS Gamma as the center. I think this is a bit crazy.

First, there are more practical and perhaps better sounding speakers available today, and, secondly, for HT, this offers little.

For HT, I like B&W speakers, like the 804 in front and I would think the less costly CDM 7NT is probably a good choice. The CDM NT for center would be nice.

I like Martin Logan, they are a bit harder to set up well, and one has to like electrostatic speakers. The ML Montis, or Ethos and the Motif center are very good; the Scripts, or EFX make nice back speakers.

If you are on a budget, the ElectroMotion ESL mixed with the Motion series will do well.

I would say, for around ten grand, the Martin Logan Montis is my favorite.