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What's your dream speaker?

If cost and availability is no problem, what's your dream speaker(s) and "why" do you want it?

I'll start.  My dream speaker is the Magico M3.  After auditioning the best speakers I could find through dealers and audio shows, the speaker sound that rather consistently connected with me emotionally were the YG and Magico.  The Magico M6/M9 are great for larger spaces, but the M3 is perfect for my use.

I haven't quite nailed down the speaker for my 2nd system yet which will be driven by flea watt amps.  Horns for bass are larger than my space can accommodate so must determine compromises I'm willing to settle for.
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prof
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1. DeVore O Reference (simply extrapolating from what I’ve heard from the O/96)

2. MBL 101E

3. Joseph Audio Pearl graphene

4. Perhaps some flavour of horn speaker. I find myself ever more persuing a sense of density and aliveness, which horns are known for. But I have little experience with Horns aside from hearing something occasionally at an Audio show. (Though I’ve been enjoying listening to the Klipsch La Scalas at a friends place)
prof
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One of the best moves I have ever made as an audiophile - this will apply to a certain percentage of frustrated hobbyists - was to abandon the search for "the One", the purported speaker that would sound perfect, and seek variety. I have found delight in the speakers of different genres I have used. Audiophilia was fraught with frustration until I made variety the key of my system building.


I've gone the same route.  Having more than one speaker to switch in tends to scratch the itch for change, and when listening to one I'm not "worried" about the characteristics it doesn't have that another speaker has...because I have that other speaker too :-)

Not saying that ultimately The One wouldn't be nice.  But I think I had to admit after many years I'm always going to get the itch for new sound.

Right now (among other speakers) I have probably my two favorite "sounds" - Thiel and Joseph Audio speakers.  I'm thinking if I had one more trophy it would be one of the Devore O series speakers, then I'd have my 3 favorite speaker brands and be spoiled as heck.

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