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?
I’ve had my Dali Euphonia ms4s for over 12 years now and there’s still nothing I would change about them. Can I live with them the rest of my life? I probably can but ya never know what the future holds. :)
About 10 years ago I discovered Maggie’s and my turnover of speakers rain stopped with the 3.6s. Now being 70 and still content, I will not get back into the whirlpool of can I find better.
Now on it did take some equipment changes to make them truly sing, not to mention Mye stands which were the best bang for the buck ever.
My ears suffer rfom from too many concerts, but I will always remember Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison among all the others. My system is still Nirvana to my old ears.
Only moving to a small home would make me give them up, Shout Out to Elizabeth!
Someone mentioned buying some really great big tall speakers with a deep cabinet. And when they die, use one cabinet as a coffin to be buried in. That’s a cost saving idea, but I think I’ll go for cremation so a small bottle will work.
First audiophile speaker purchased was Magneplanar MGIIB. 1980 Several others in between including Acoustat 2+2, Martin Logan Sequel II, and Odyssey. Last speaker is Wilson Maxx 3. 2016 I’m very happy with my system now. It was speakers and room treatments that did it!
I'm 65 years old and have enjoyed a pair of Focal Sopra No2's since they first came out and every time I hear another speaker that I like, they sound "different" than my Sopra's, but not "better", not getting the "hots" to trade.
I haven't heard the new Focal Utopia's yet, if I did, I might consider trading up to a Scala (the largest one I could accommodate). But I'm really happy with my setup, no need to go thru all the heartache of changing components now!
shkong78, The Sopra's are rated at 91db with one watt of input, not "super efficient", but more efficient than most. I have them in a 24x26' room and when I'm listening to them at a loud (for me) level, the needles on my power amp dance around the 4.5 watt mark.
Yes, too many folks equate efficiency to driving speakers. Current and control are key. This is why you can have synergy with a speaker adn amp that 'seems' under powered, but really isn't. You can also have a bad match just hooking up some behemoth amp with a speaker at say 85db efficient. This is why I hate reading threads where folks make real life decisions on gear from specs. It's just crazy. Starting point maybe, but any good speaker designer will tell you to listen to an amp with their speakers before saying it's under powered. Some like specific amp designs like zero feedback etc..., but in the end, it's still personal taste.
My Legacy Signature IIIs were purchased using a 16 watt Sherwood 7100 receiver (it killed his 200 watt Boulder amp due to an electrical mismatch with an his tube preamp). Also sounds dynamic with punchy bass using a Yamaha R620 30 watt receiver. Both have good current control of speakers. My EAR 890 can't control the bass on my larger Legacy Focus which have 96 db efficiency. Turns out that they go down to 2.8 ohms in the bass with six 12" woofers. EAR 890 works great on the Signature IIIs with a 3.2 ohm 94 db efficiency and six 10" woofers. Mating the amp to the speaker is essential.
If I had to go to live on a desert island and could only take a pair of speakers I could only carry with my two hands: my Rogers LS3/5A's! A TRUE legend!
@shkong78 : I will bring a gasoline generator and ferment/distill vegetation to produce ethanol for fuel! And a SS amp (Bedini 25/25) plus a CD player with variable output, along with CDs. of course!
The Doctor says I have only six months to live so I think it is possible...........................................................had he said one year it might be questionable.
I purchased my Von Schweikert original VR-4s in 1997. Had them factory upgraded in 2002. I've rotated the speakers in my bedroom systems, but these have been in my main system for 21 years now. I have auditioned many other speakers (up to price points of $15K to $18K) over this period, but have yet to hear any which impressed me to the point of swapping out the Von Schweikerts for them.
I think I could have lived with my Beethovens, but I had to go down the rabbit hole. Now I have a $22k pair of speakers dominating my room that do everything better than the beethovens do 'cept when I swap them out those old speakers still sound really good, no I can't count how many pips are singing harmony like the $$$'s can, but I DIDN'T KNOW THAT until I went looking for it! There's currently 4 pair of speakers in my basement and I could live with any of them the rest of my live. Picking one, that's the hard part.
I'm with Wolf, I'm loving my Heresy III... will it be my last speaker? Unlikely but I doubt I will ever sell them. They are a lot of speaker for the money and do a lot of things well. A lot of fun to listen to.
I'm at the age where my friends die occasionally (once per friend of course) which does end their speaker swap opportunities as I feel there's zero afterlife. Those who feel there IS an afterlife of some sort might feel speaker change is possible forever...how comforting...
No. I love my Magico S5 Mk2’s, but plan on setting up a system in future based around large planar magnetic panels with servo subs. Ever since I heard the Infinity IRS-V’s back in 1991, it’s been a life dream to set up a system which bests the already great fives.
Yes. I’ve had my ESP Bodhran SE speakers for over ten years now. They fulfill all my requirements with the exception of deep bass which has been addressed with a pair of Gallo Acoustics TR1D subs.
The Bodhran’s are rare and unconventional in design. The enclosure is a sealed design with aperiodic venting. Viewed from the top it resembles the state of Nevada, so designed to fire at 45 degrees into the room. They are designed for tube amplifiers, fairly efficient at 91 db with a high stable impedance.
Front firing drivers are a 1 inch tweeter flanked by two 5 inch mids in an MTM configuration. Below that are two 7 inch bass drivers. There is also an additional 1 inch tweeter which is side firing.
They present a large and spacious soundstage. Frequency balance is towards the warm side but not excessively so. The bass is clean without the excesses one finds with the common ported speakers. My musical tastes are primarily jazz, classical, and americana. I can play anything I want to listen to and be thrilled with the results. I believe that’s pretty much all one can hope for.
I think with the recent purchase of the Spendor D9's, I could live with these speakers for a very, very long time. I don't see myself ever wanting to spend upwards of $20K on a set of speakers so I am at a level that I am comfortable with now. Very happy and content.
Once you get to a certain level you can only go sideways, trading one quality for another.
The real trick is to know what you line best and what you dislike most. I love purity of tone the most and find coarse treble painful. So 8 years later I'm still with Tannoy DCs, but as prof said, an audiophile can never truly say never.
Especially when there's wood cone speakers out there, ribbon tweeters, plasma tweeters(!?), open baffles, active designs etc
Besides who knows what fabulous designs and technologies that supercomputers of the near future will be churning out in a few years?
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