Top Ten Speakers of All Time?

Anything made by norh

dahlquist dq 10

In time, the Newform 645. The most bang for the buck in audio, period. (IMHO)

As years pass and more people have the opportunity to hear these speakers, they will achieve legendary status.

In no particular order:

Soundlab Ultimate ones
Quad ESL 63
Vandersteen 5's
Audio Artistry Beethovens
Magnegan 3.6

Here are my choices, in no particular order and chosen for the impact and importance of the speaker in its time,not necessarily because it would stand up against the competition today-although several do indeed still sound remarkably good:

1) Quad 57
2) Acoustic Research AR 3
3) Quad 63
4) Dahlquist DQ 10
5) Spendor BC 1
6) Spendor SP 1/2
7) Magnepan MG III
8) Klipsch Corner Horns
9) Large Advent
10) Rogers (or Spendor) LS 3/5a

These are/were all "real world" speakers, i.e., at least within financial reach of quite a few people of normal means, unlike some of the esoterica from Infinity, Wilson, Genesis, Pipe Dreams, etc.