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Danny wrote:
 What are the best speakers that you have had a chance to listen to? |
Like some others here, I don't like to go listening to stuff I can't afford. And since I'm mostly broke these days, I'm wa-ay out of touch on the new stuff. But I think the speaker that impressed me the most, back in the day, was the Ohm F. They were huge, expensive, weird-looking, and ridiculously inefficent, but they had a certain sound that I haven't heard before or since. And good lord, the BASS! We used to sell them at the music store where I work. This is a building which started out as a medium-sized grocery store, and we could feel the intro to Dark Side of the Moon (a favorite demo) shaking the floor all the way back in the shop.
As for reality, I still love my Sony SS-M3s (yes, Sony!). Peerless drivers, 4-pole L-R crossovers, 1" thick time-aligned enclosures, etc. These used to be a well-kept secret, although not so much nowadays with the internet - everybody knows everything now.
I recently snagged a third one on eBay for a center, so I'm good to go for the forseeable future.
Great forum, by the way.
Jim the Noob