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What is the most FUN pair of speakers you've ever had and why?

Not the most expensive, not the best reviewed, not the biggest, but the most FUN.  You know, that ONE that just makes you throw on some more music and keep listening, the one that makes your toes tap, your head bob, your ass move the most.  The one that makes you think to yourself "damn, why doesn't everyone have a pair of these?" Let 'er rip. 
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Richopp, did you sell the ARK Label LP's Bob Fulton recorded? Fantastic sound quality, as good as direct-to-disk! Fantastic transparency and inner detail (you can hear every single voice in the Minnesota church choirs he recorded), natural organic timbre, and deep, deep bass (the "shuddery" notes made by the pipes of the lowest organ bass pedals move my walls!). I have about a half dozen.

I never blew a single RTR tweeter, but I powered the Fulton J's with an ARC D-75. I have some spares of that great RTR tweeter, got them with the ESS Transtatic I loudspeakers (which had three in each) I bought used in '82. One speaker had a replacement woofer, not the correct KEF B139 (also used by Wilson in his WAMM). I called ESS, and got the last one they had in stock! I still have the speakers.

I'm really looking forward to hearing the new dual-dipole Magnepan "project" loudspeaker. Hope the tour comes to town.

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@richopp, I replaced my Magneplanar Tympani T-I's with Fulton Model J's (which used the Model 80 as it's midrange. The 80 had an 8" woofer, the 100 a 10"), wanting their deeper bass (transmissionline-loaded woofers) and greater transparency (the Model J contained six RTR ESL tweeters per speaker, the same ones Wilson later used in his WAMM). I soon regretted it, and went back to planars.
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My first pair of Magneplanars---the Tympani T-I. Finally, life-size images and scale (grand pianos are huge, piccolos tiny), singer's voices at true-to-life height (five feet off the floor), wide open sound, and great depth and height (if the recording contains such. The triangle at the rear of the orchestra in Boult's EMI recording of Holtz's The Planets sounded further away than the wall behind the Tympanis, and positioned higher than the closer instruments. The percussion section of orchestras are often standing on raised platforms.). After hearing them, the images produced by other loudspeakers sounded miniaturized, like those in a child's doll house. And the large venue in which the recording was made also shrunken.
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