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What is a good all around high quality speaker to purchase?

I'm looking for a high performance all around musical speaker. My previous speakers are:

Bose 501 - I was young and they served a purpose

Infinity SM150 - terrible from the start

Boston Acoustics T1000 - actually a nice all around speaker

Polk SDA-SRS1tl - loved the full sound, not accurate at all

Thiel 2.3 - Very dry sounding

B&W N802 - perhaps my favorite, but needed to be played loud

Thiel 3.7 - I think Jim's cancer affected his hearing

B&W 802D - 1st gen, still have.....please stop my ears from bleeding

 

What do you suggest?

 

 

onehorsepony
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celtic66
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https://atc.audio/hi-fi/loudspeakers/classic-series/scm50/
Will crush anything on your given list.  Passive version allows you use of your mono blocks.  Good hunting.

phasey
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.Nowadays I have found Dynaudio has shifted towards a more forward sound, not bright but more forward than previous lines (this was with the Excite line). I think Evoke has been a step back in the right direction. Have never heard Contour or Confidence. 

Dynaudio Confidence, at least the bookshelf speakers, have amazing soundstage.

mihorn
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Nowadays I have found Dynaudio has shifted towards a more forward sound, not bright but more forward than previous lines (this was with the Excite line).

Any one can make the speaker’s sound more forward. Simply, put more stuff inside spkr cabinet. Still human voice won’t come forward though and only veiled sounds come forward.  Also balancing sounds of tweeter and woofer is hard work.

Speaker (2-way spkr) tuning tip:

1) Woofer’s front sound is always base (starting point). Decide how much woofer forward sound by stuffing cabinet. Too much forward: it hurts your ears and sounds bright. Too much laid back: sound (stage) messy, sound sucks your eyes and ears out.

2) Based on woofer sound, decide the quantity of tweeter’s sound. The tweeter’s quantity of sound (bright/dark) and tweeter’s forwardness/laid back sound (piercing/messy) are different matter. Forward/back sounds are controlled by stuffing in cabinet. The quantity of tweeter’s sound is controlled on front of tweeter (outside cabinet). Right. Tweeter’s sound quantity can be adjusted in front of my AMT ribbon tweeter.

3) Decide tweeter’s forward/laid back sounds by stuffing cabinet (different stuffing point from woofer).

Result’s below. 

Beyoncé - If I Were A Boy (Original music)

Beyoncé - If I Were A Boy (WT audio)

Alex/Wavetouch audio 

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