What is the Best Sounding Stand Mount Speaker in the world?

dunno about the best but these are really starting to sound nice

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Porsche · 2023-01-14 12:16 am at 12:16 AM

@mijostyn, the Rogers LS3/5a is the best.  

There is no best. They are all compromises, trade-offs and personal preferences.  Stupid question!

are you 5?

It is one of those absurd questions that garnered 160 responses.

The purpose of any query is to elicit responses. Absurd you say!

I am moving across the country this month and hope to organize

another Society out on the Kitsap Peninsula. If I succeed I will

approach to big boys for product to do a real comparison.

Who will come???

@jeffseight   Are you still planning the stand mount speaker comparison?

Sonus Faber Guarneri Homage circa 2004. By some cosmic twist of fate, a pristine pair is now playing beautifully in my home. I can only hope that when I have "moved on" these magnificent musical instruments will somehow find a new, and deserving home. Mille Grazie, to the esteemed Franco.

I have NO FREAKIN’ idea if these speakers are "the best" but they sure sound damn good. In fact, the OP’s question is, at heart, a logical fallacy. "Best?" compared to what. and filtered through ears, taste, systems, and more?

I pity the rampant abolutists who dare to post here. As if they have some sort of handle on "The Truth". All I am saying is let your ears and wallet sort it out for you. Big Swingin’ D’s are to be ignored. That’s what seems clear and obvious from my perspective.

Have a good day.

Cabasse - La Sphère 

Only stand mount that can keep up with  giant floorstanders

Roger's LS3 5A

Adding my voice to the chorus praising the Dynaudio Heritage Special.

This is, to me, the quintessential real world bookshelf speaker - expensive but not outrageously so, with superlative performance in a timeless package. 

Maybe if you put the $150K Grandinote Mach 36’s on short stands they might the best in the world 🤔🤔 😃

I am really impressed by all the stand mount speaker brands/models  that have been posted. My budget is less. While I have mostly used floorstanders, I will not let loose of my old Reference 3A  MM MMC two ways made in Loudon France. They eventually became known as De Capos. I am still looking for a floor stander that can match the mid bass, mid range, and treble while providing a decent low end. It never ends I guess.

what if you put a $600,000  pair of magico m9's on short stands, would they be best?

That is an absurd question. It took me 3 years to build the 2 systems I have in the house, both rooms were so completely different. I had several sets of Dynaudio speakers in my main listening room, and have chosen the Confidence 20 as my my main floor end game speakers. None of the Dynaudio speakers sounded great in the basement, that is where frequency goes to die. I have a set of Capriccio Continuo 311 Ad monitor Speakers, and they are amazing. sharp articulate and precise.

Maybe the all new Grandinote Mach 18R Monitors  

www.grandinote.it/mach18r.html

Hanima is the best

I own the Dynaudio Heritage Specials.  I am not claiming that these are the best but they are extremely transparent and enjoyable to listen to.  With the supporting cast I have they sure sound fabulous in my room.

WOW look at the crossover parts that Credo Audio use 😃 🤩

https://www.facebook.com/credoaudio/

www.stereophile.com/content/credo-audio-audio-shield-emm-van-den-hul-vpi-wolf

Are the new CREDO AUDIO EV-350 MK2 REFERENCE the best on the planet period ?! $$$7K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZLL1aCu07Y

"Price no object?  The most precious commodity is time.  So, build your own.  The materials can be exotic as you want, usually better than manufacturers use.  Thus, it is possible to build a speaker better than anything you have heard."

I bought some Closer Acoustic Ogy speakers. They're far from the most expensive at around 1500€~2000€ (depending on finish). The build is as good as it gets really:

- hand-built fullrange driver from a small mom & pop company (EMS)

- Laser-cut plywood sandwich transmission line enclosure. Somebody designed that and it's intricate AF. There are only curves in the transmission line, no edges. It shows that a lot of time was spent on the build.  

- Corian finish with a smiley face port in front

- It's the size of a cereal box. 

Does it sound the best? Probably not. But I enjoy them immensely. I love the minimalist and counter-intuitive concept. I mean we'll probably see more active speakers with mutliple amplifiers for each driver and active DSPs/crossovers. These speakers will get the highest regards from the "I listen to speakers with my eyes looking at a chart" community. And I have nothing against that, because the end-result is rather enjoyable regardless. 

Harbeth P3ESR

Not Uber high end but everyone that owns them covets them, including me. 

All new Jern 35 Monitors are out now !

The all new Avid EVO 4 Monitors ?

Love my Sonner Legato Unum.

Here's the review on QLN Signature Monitors

 https://parttimeaudiophile.com/2022/10/30/qln-signature-monitors-review/

All new QLN Signature Monitors at $18K a pair 

 Part Time Audiophile will be reviewing these speakers soon

@orfeo_monteverdi +1 on the Stenheim Alumine 2 standmount. Wonderful speaker with purity, speed and naturalness. Easy to set up, drive and unusually sensitive for a standmount as well.

I also see Wilson Benesch shout outs here. I've enjoyed their stand mount as well, though not in my own system.

Borressen 01

Oops - *W-B Endeavors 😏

I would also like to hear some Viking Acoustics standmounts (Berlin Evo), Trenner Friedl Ra, and the Wilson Tune Tots are nice, though these may not be current SOTA. Much depends on amps and cable, room, and preferences, of course.

Klinger Favre D56

Meyer Sound Bluehorn

Borresen

Those MB Endeavors look delicious as well.

The Wilson-Benesch Endeavors are sublime. Why you might ask. Well they combine rich midrange, excellent tonality, ie voices sound exactly like they should, the bass is very accurate without being heavy and over compensating. Many stand mounts in an effort to sound impressive force the mid drive to perform like a bass unit. 

aplogies if i have missed the jist,

is this thread a promo for a specific company/model?

JEFFSEIGHT,

Are you now glad you asked that question ???

"In the land of the blind, The one eyed man is king"

.. 3rd on the MBL’s, which I’ve heard. Phenomenal imaging, tonal coherance/realism, albeit at a somewhat miniaturized scale. One caveat.. at the show the demonstrators treated the room quite extensively.

2nd the MBL's, phenomenal

I've been in this hobby for a long time (since 1979).Just remember it is a hobby not a life and death pursuit. My opinion and only my opinion is the Rogers LS3/5A. gold badge that I purchased in 1979 for $300.00 (used) but costed $400.00 new at the time.Sold them on this site in 1979 for $1,70.00.!!  I almost blew them up but Regnar in New York saved them. They are all the things the top reviewers say they are and why reviewers like Holt, Kessler, and Reichert keep them around regardless of all the new contestants they reviewed.

(R.I.P. Holt) Now the polar opposite would be the Usher BE718 DMD now discontinued but sometimes available on the used market. They are big and bold, sounding like a floor stander and easily able to fill a large room with sound. Needs a good stand like the Skylan two pillar stands filled with epoxy aquarium gravel. In my opinion everything out there are also-rans. NOTE: read the review in 6moons on the Ushers, but read it carefully about his thoughts on standpoint speakers in general. An eyeopener!

David

@jhw9

..really interested to hear the new Audio Physic speakers with their latest spider-less transducer technology. NEAR won me over long ago just because of this. Glad to see it coming back.

Yes, me too.

Also, their crazy snowflake/hybrid midrange. Assuming it makes its way down the range eventually (we can’t call Medeos a stand-mount :-)

Honestly never heard a commercial speaker, 2-way I liked better than a Fritz.

I've found others I liked a lot like Monitor Audio Silvers and higher, but if I was going to buy a 2-way which has to stand alone, without a sub, Fritz without a doubt.

@kellyp

agreed but it takes some skill, this is our Master Artist Signature Monitor on its optional matching bass module

 Wired with Kimber Kable 4tc wire. We used Mundorf binding post and Parts (Including Goertz Copper Foil 12awg inductors on the woofer, ClarityCap CSA cap and Mundorf Copper Foil 16 awg inductors on the mid, and Mundorf Supreme EVO-Oil/ClarityCap CSA combo caps on tweeter, Mundorf MREsist Supreme resistors in all critical tweeter and midrange circuits. Wrapped in porsche blue leather and has birdseye maple real wood veneer. raal 140 ribbon tweeter, accuton 7" cell mid bass and accuton 8" cell woofer

[please forgive my poor English]

- Stenheim Alumine Two, or Alumine Two SE
Fast, articulate. Highly revealing. Impressively realistic if the amp (preferably on the "rich-sounding" side) is very good.
- Harbeth Monitor 30.2 XD
Good clarity; amazingly natural midrange; gorgeous treble, seamlessly integrated with the mid; slightly rich upper bass (which makes this revealing ’monitor’ enjoyable to listen to). Amongst the best timbres with acoustic instruments.

Lawrence audio makes fantastic products. I had their mandolin speakers were were fabulous in my previous rig. Am using NSMT Jamaica 50 now but absolutely loved the mandolins. 

MAGICO MINI 2s THE BEST.

No one has mentioned the Manger Audio c1 (or the passive z1). To my ears, they should be on the list!

Stand Mounts act like an antenna and should be grounded.

... that's because there is no one best sounding speaker, it's subjective and a matter of taste and system matching.

No one really knows the answer.