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Can you live with your current speaker until you die?

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Yes I can!

In my 40 years of history I had gone through around 15 speakers including

ADS, Altec Lansing, Thiel, Canton, Apogee Duetta Signature(10years), BMW 801, Avalon Ascent, Wilson Audio Watt and Puppy6.



I settled at Pacific Northwest area located just midway between Seattle and Vancouver BC around 6 years ago.

It has a nice western view of Bay and Pacific Ocean with 2 acres lot.

I could play music loud during midnight with no problem to my neighbors as long as I close the windows.


With vaulted big space, my Lansche 4.1 speakers makes a beautiful voice out of classical, Jazz or even new age music.

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I had been living with the speaker since 2007.

I do not claim that Lansche 4.1 is the best speaker in the world.

But with clean and pristine treble out of plasma tweeters and pretty good bass out of 2 10 inch driven by internal active amplifier and high efficiency (99db spec, but I believe it to be around 93db), it is hard to find better speaker with overall merit for my house.


The only catch is that it can stop working since it is an active speaker( plasma tweeter and active bass unit).

But I keep having good communication with Henry Dien of Lansche Audio who upgraded plasma tweeters twice at reasonable cost.

I can happily live with Lansche 4.1 speakers at my present house for my life unless serious health issues happen to either me or my speakers.

How about you gentlemen and ladies?

Had any one of you found the speaker for your life?


128x128shkong78
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Indeed I can!  I had a pair of Tannoy 15" Berkley's for 30 years.  Now I have Sonus Faber Elipsa driven by McIntosh.  Absolutely superb in my listening room.  I still get chills.
fleschler
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Never say never.  I've had my Legacy Focus speakers for 20 years now, always improving with new cables and tweaks.  I went through Acoustat Xs, 2&2s and Martin Logan Monolith 3s in the prior 15 years.  I do not want to revisit electrostats. My next speaker could be a Von Scweikert VR55 (or Ultra 9) or Lumenwhite Kyara or some other $50-60K speaker, maybe used even. 

I'm 62 and hoping to live a long time (and my hearing is excellent).   I should be able to afford a better built speaker (the original Focus isn't SOTA).  The question remains how much better a speaker I can buy for $50-60K when I can afford it in the near future.  And, I only want an efficient speaker, no Magico, Wilson, B&W, etc.  They are off my wish list.  I've also enjoyed some horn speakers but don't think I can live with them.  
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crazyeddy
381 posts
 

Yes !!

Wilson Maxx 2's. They're to heavy, and I'm to old (and lazy) to move them, so they are here to stay !! LOL :)

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vair68robert
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shkong78

You have had a lot of experience over the years ,
so which speaker manufacture tickled your fancy at the time ?
Have you ever purchased the same manufacture years later 

I am a CS2.7 Thiel speaker owner and am a follower of the
Thiel speaker forum , if you were to read some of the posts you would find a loyal following that accurately describes the Thiel speaker progress of design through out the years , so the speakers you heard 30 years ago are not the same as the speakers made today .
I would guess that if you read other forums discussing speakers made by a specific manufacture that you would get the same type of loyal following and insight into the progress they made over the years .

I think the Thiel CS2.7s will be my last speakers ( being newly retired helps narrow the meaning of last ) , unless I win the Lotto .

from Oregon
Rob

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These threads are always fascinating and underline the subjectivity involved in our choices.   There are plenty of speakers others here call their last speaker that I could never live with, and that surely is the case with my speakers for other people.

That also speaks to the fact it's great that we have so many different designs to choose from.

Vive la difference!  (in speakers!)

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