The best speaker you ever heard?

audio physic libras - great bass, lovely mid range and good tweeter, especially in the right near field listening venue.

Gallardo, I like your $8,000 limit. Would you rate 4 or 5 current models you think are as good as money will buy ?

What about the Wilson Maxx 2? Can the duos get that kind of bottom end clean, sharp punchy bass response???

Legacy Whispers are Whonderful!

KLIPSCHORNS--Read on..I'll tell you why. Before I ended up with a pair, I been nosing around high end audio stores and listening to some high end setups. I have heard GRAND UTOPIAS, AVANTGARDE DUOS AND TRIOS, WILSON GRAND SLAM and DYNA AUDIO--can't remember the model but their about 7ft. tall. The salesman usually tells me what the speaker is all about and more importantly the price. None of these speakers impress me. I don't know, maybe because of the listening room--or just the overall setup. One weekend I got invited to a get together in a friend's house. In the basement they had a pair of 1985 KLIPSCHORN on the corners-- 20 FT. apart being driven by a 300B SET amp. The chair I sat on was about 8 ft from the front wall. For the first time the hair all over my body stood up. I could not believe what I was hearing. The depth and width of the Soundstage, the three dimensional very life like midrange and the immediacy. That's when I found out that these speakers where first made in the late 40's to present with very little changes. Now why would a company make the same speakers for over 50 years if it's not THE BEST SPEAKERS in the planet.