The best speaker you ever heard?

Tidal Contriva Discera SEs, I had concluded that every speaker was a compromise in one way or another, until I got these. And they are well short of the 600 hours of breakin.

My main question now is finding an amp to get the most out of them.

I have a pair of Infinity MTS right now in a simple system with an Olive server feeding a Tact 2150XDM. Sounds pretty outstanding.

The McIntosh XRT2K at the McIntosh Labs headquarters in Binghamton N.Y. in March of 2008. Of course driven by Mac 2000 watt mono amps and associated Mac equipment.

fritz carbon 7's are the best ive heard

The best speaker I ever heard was the Linkwitz Orion. Being an active crossovered speaker with separate amplification for each driver and also being a dipole, you need to place it out into the room by at least 3-4 feet. But if you can do that, you will be amazed at the huge soundstage, the great imaging, and a sweet spot that is enormous. It sounds great even anywhere in a room. Go to the Linkwitzlab.com site.

As far as classic loudspeakers go, the Devore line, with the top of the line Silverbacks are beyond incredible. The next down the line in the Gibbon series is the Gibbon 9 at MSRP $6,500/pr. In a medium-sized room it is amazingly wonderful and is so easy to drive that it thrives on low-powered tube amplification, such as Leben, Shindo, and much less expensive tube amps.

Greg