The best speaker you ever heard?

Classic Audio Reproductions...
I don't know why, but they popped into my head first.
(I'm kind of a JBL/Altec fan, anyway)
IIRC, these speakers were a 3 or 4 way, 15" with compression driver(s) I heard them at CES in 2001 with Atma-Sphere amps, the other gear is unknown, thpough the source gear was analog. So liquid, so wet, so palpable, so 3D. I spent over an hour in that booth, and spent mere seconds in hundreds of others that day. I was transfixed, and etched Atma-Sphere in my brain, as my JBL 4343 are so, so simular to those C.A.R. speakers. Maybe they were based on them?

Another runner up for me is the "big" Hales (remember Paul Hales?) with BAT SS gear in a large booth-room at HiFi'98 in Los Angeles. Superb!

Gershman Acoustics Opera Sauvage. At 2003 CES my wife and I heard the most incredible sound coming out of a little room at Alexis Park. It was the Opera Sauvage powered by Kora electronics playing Scherezade cut off the Burmester demo CD. It was the cleanest, most dynamic, and realistic sound I had ever heard. The closest I had ever heard to live music.

Radford 360 degree things playing Dark Side of the Moog V by Pete,Klaus and Bill. Heavenly! Happy New Year from England!

Well, The ones that I owned and enjoyed the most ? Not the most accurate of all, but of superior musicality and the best bass panels I ever heard in my life...Magnepan timpanys, hands down!. When i can follow every single chord of a bass guitar without straining and hear and feel the texture of the kick pedal impacting on the bass drum, thats Amore!! They also have plenty of bass!! better than any subwoofer and more natural!! I love the Timpanys! anyone who says that they do not have bass, don't understand the principles of positioning planar speakers as opposed to Dynamic speakers for the best bass response!

Best Sound I heard at CES 2004 was a French Speaker called PRAM. Horn-loaded mid/tweeter crossed over to 2(12) woofers in D'appollito configuration. Front end was all Jadis, the CD player, JPL line preamp and JA-80 monoblocks. Lovely, super seductive liquid mids. Very coherent. Dynamic. Only lacking in extreme lows and highs but you don't care. You only want to hear another tune. Wow! Almost bought the show sample but reason prevailed. I certainly can't afford to upgrade my entire system to do them justice.