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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?


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melbguy_one
26 posts
 
@shkong78, there are much better planar magnetic panels around today than the original (and even resto’d) Apogees.

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rhljazz
1,250 posts
 
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.

freesole
159 posts
 
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. 
cd318
2,636 posts
 
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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simao
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+1 for @cd318
I mean, if I made more, I'd invest more. But my income bracket dictates I stick with what I can, so it's almost always a sideways lateral.

However, the Spatial M3 Turbo S's I have no rival anything I've ever had. Including speakers that cost 3x as much.

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