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The best speaker you ever heard?

In my opinion, the speaker is by far the most important part of the audio system. After all, it is the only part you hear. OK, the other stuff really matters a lot, but without a great speaker... No go.

I am a bit 'speaker-obsessed' I guess, and now I am wondering: What are the best speakers you have ever heard, and what made them the best?
njonker
hooper
396 posts
 
While the 1A, with the outboard crossovers, may be better still, the 1B is as good as I've personally heard. There may be speakers that do this or that a wee bit better, but the Kharma bests them all by being *consistent*. It excels at everything, fails at nothing.
vfr
1 posts
 
Piegas p10 at this time.
jimpcn
48 posts
 
just got back from the audio show in Montreal and I would
say the best was the 989 Quads.

Most speakers have anywhere from 3 to 10% distortion.
The quads have a measly 0.1%

Kinda redefines the word clean and acurate.

They did sound quite amazing.

jim.
jimpcn
48 posts
 
Quad 988 or 989.

Did I say midrange to die for?

Well it has midrange to die for.
A reviewer said it was perfect and I'd have to
agree.

Perfect!

only ceavat is that the bass dosen't slam like
Focal JMlab's woofs.

but a pair of subs/woofers could fix that for what
might be the perfect speaker.
IMHO.

Chow
wc65mustang
524 posts
 
to jimpcn: I'm running a pair of Vandersteen 2W subs with my Quad 988's and it's a pretty sweet package.
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