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Tally up which speaker gets the most votes as best

We have seen so many threads on what is the best speakers, or the speakers to hang on to for life, but the responses end up in paragraph form as a result making it hard to get a good accessment of which speakers get mentioned most or more often, which is ok, but let us see if we can get a thread going that will be easy to tally up which speaker gets the most votes as the best speaker regardless of price... We all have different tastes let's keep in mind that the diversity is a plus and there is no need to make this a personal crusade. I think most of us would like to see a genuinely accurate picture of the most popular speaker. I don't like to live by rules but if I may suggest let's keep the response limited to just the name of the speaker and model name or number. Every now and then we can get a score card showing the results. I would like to start off with what I consider the best: mbl 101e.
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My choice is rather esoteric, and I'm not actually sure of the manufacturer of the driver itself, but it's the speaker that came stock in a 1972 Plymoth Valiant. These were mono speakers so you'll need two of them. Talk about your magic midrange! Only drawback is you need to have a pretty large listening room to park two Valiants with the doors wide open in the proper configuration for sterophonic listening. I've got mine 10 feet from the back walls and four feet from the side walls. Front doors open, rear passenger door closed with the window open. I'm running them with the best amplifier ever made (IMO, of course), which comes integrated with it's very own turntable. Yep, you guessed it, I'm running those puppies through my vintage Kenner Close'N"Play turntable. I've got an output tube buffer on it, a $5K aftermarket power cord, and some $9K speaker cable. I'll leave the latter two for an appropriately ostentatious thread.

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