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What's your speaker IQ, and the best speaker?

Please forgive the fact that this is a direct overlap of the popular "The best speaker you ever heard?" thread. However as much as I love the original thread, far too many of the respondents do not list what other speakers they have auditioned, severely limiting the value of that particular answer. For example if you say, "The Dunlavy SC-V are the best speaker bar none" and all you ever heard before that are whatever was at Best Buy, it is hard to give that opinion a lot of weight. But if you say, "The Dunlavy SC-V are the best speaker bar none" and I've listened to Von Schwiekert VR-11s, Avalon Eidolon Diamonds, and the entire Wilson line .. well then NOW you're saying something.

So in my perfect world, the posts would go something like: "Krix Equinox, Rogers Studio 1a, Quad 12L, Quad ESL989, ATC SCM 20SL, Kef C40s, most of the Thiel line, but I have to say far and away the best speaker I've ever hear is ..."

Forgive me again, but I guess this also overlaps the popular "Personal speaker evolution" thread! However if this topic takes on any traction, I think it can be a perfect marriage of the other two threads and very valuable resource.

Try to answer by listing the speakers first, so that when the answers post they will be seen in the 1st line of the post and anyone browsing the thread can then click on those answers that mention speakers that he/she is interested in.

This could be fun, thanks!
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mechans
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I own 8 pairs of speakers at the moment and you want me to give you a list of every speaker I have heard at length. I couldn't even begin to try such a feat.
The best speakers I ever Heard are Arnie Nudell's personal set of 1989 Infinity IRS Vs which were refurbished after being played once to show the world what he could do and then crated and stored for 20+ years. Bill Legall a true master at the craft of speaker repair etc. preparedthem for regular use. There is no one who knows infinity better than him, I say that with certainty. I am not generally impressed with Infinity but his IRS Betas and his two sets of IRS Vs are utterly amazing- if you enjoy big sound which I happen to like very much. He also owns a variety of other great classic speakers. My own are not interesting except for my Vintage 1959 JBL C38s with the 030 package and the C36s with the D-131 driver and the 075 tweeters. I use JMlab Electras 936s and VSA VR2s nothing really interesting, but I have listened critically to dozens. I couldn't posibly list them all.
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