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Can you live with your current speaker until you die?

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Yes I can!

In my 40 years of history I had gone through around 15 speakers including

ADS, Altec Lansing, Thiel, Canton, Apogee Duetta Signature(10years), BMW 801, Avalon Ascent, Wilson Audio Watt and Puppy6.



I settled at Pacific Northwest area located just midway between Seattle and Vancouver BC around 6 years ago.

It has a nice western view of Bay and Pacific Ocean with 2 acres lot.

I could play music loud during midnight with no problem to my neighbors as long as I close the windows.


With vaulted big space, my Lansche 4.1 speakers makes a beautiful voice out of classical, Jazz or even new age music.

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I had been living with the speaker since 2007.

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?


shkong78
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shkong78 OP
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Last month I acquired a very first pair of custom made Grandinote Mach 36's from Italy. They are literally serial numbers 0001 and 0002. They retail for about $180,000. They are paired with a Naim system: a 500 amp, a 552 preamp, and a 555CD player, with Luna cables. On top of that, the owner and chief engineer of the company, Masimiliano Magri (better known as Max) just came to my house on Long Island, New York, to fine tune them! It is inconceivable that I would ever want to listen to anything else. Check out the reviews of the Grandinote gear from the Munich show last year. BTW.....if any of you are local and want to give them a listen while sipping a fine dram of some scotch whisky, get back to me at [email protected].

It will be nice to get such exotic speakers.

I would be happy to join you if I live near New York, but I am living on the other side.

I wish you be happy with the speaker for your life.
yyman23
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McIntosh XRT 28's. Enough said (for me). 
dopogue
1,773 posts
 
Absolutely.  Gallo Nucleus Ultimates from ~1996.

'Course I'm already 89 so ...
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bailyhill
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I am fortunate to have the Apogee Scintillas and I will keep them until I die.  Had them for 34 years, and will plan for another 34 years.  I am planning to acquire another pair and do some time alignment mods, upgrade the caps, new ribbons and have them rebuilt.  I think there is a little more to be gained by such improvements.  Source is a Naim NDX Streamer into an Allegri+ TVC for volume control, direct driving a Krell KSA-80B and they sound fabulous. Source material is Naim Core RIP of CD's, TIDAL, and Hi REz downloads from ProStudioMasters & HD Tracks.  Also upgrading to the ND555/PS555 streamer later this month.

Bailyhill

desktopguy
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funny question. it would be easier to answer if I knew my death date well in advance...
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