The best speaker you ever heard?


In my opinion, the speaker is by far the most important part of the audio system. After all, it is the only part you hear. OK, the other stuff really matters a lot, but without a great speaker... No go.

I am a bit 'speaker-obsessed' I guess, and now I am wondering: What are the best speakers you have ever heard, and what made them the best?
njonker

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I have seen this post asking what are the best speakers for a couple of years and tried to give my answer but to be very honest, never could give a truly honest answer. I kept asking myself which speaker was the very best that I ever heard.. I all honesty I still cannot give a straight forward ONE SPEAKER answer. I have heard a few excellent sounding systems and honestly cannot say which was the very best. I heard electrostatics that really impressed me with that unique sound.. On the other hand I heard dynamic box speakers with a totally different type of sound that were also excellent. I seriously in all honesty cannot give a one speaker answer. To me there is no best. When I think about it more and more I cannot say any one speaker was so far outstanding to be called the very best.. To me it's not the sound of any one speaker or any one component but a combination of things including the specific sound track recording in a specific room with a unique sound that impressed me at that moment in time. I have heard many of the speakers and even owned one of the speakers mentioned and most all of them were very good to exceptional performers BUT again I honestly cannot single out any one to be so far better sounding than another that would be the final word as to be called THE BEST I HEARD.. I can admit that the big expensive Electrostatic panel speaker like the big Apogee or the big A-1 Sound Lab speaker has always left an exceptional impression on me as a type of sound that has one of the very best sound that I ever heard BUT again I have also heard other recordings on a different designed speaker that was very exceptional sounding to me.. Again I cannot honestly give a ONE speaker being the best answer.. Its much easier for me to say what is the best room you have ever listened to and then the answer becomes a little easier for me to give a ONE SPEAKER answer... My answer to this question is going to be there IS NO ONE BEST SPEAKER I have ever listened too.. That is my true honest answer. There is no ONE BEST.. There are many excellent sounding speakers and to me the ROOM is more what should be the question asked,,,, the ROOM and the RECORDING is the best answer I can honestly give...