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In Reply to: 10 Best Speakers-What do you think posted by Bold Eagle on January 10, 2002 at 12:40:07:
What fun... my list, in no particular order:1. Maggie Tympany 1Us for the best lower midrange/upper bass I've ever heard, and for looking very cool at the time (and now).
2. KLH double 9s when driven by Futtermans for giving us for the first time the "lighter than air" weightless feeling of the real thing, and a midrange that was thrilling.
3. Spica TC-50s for capturing the soul of a live performance in an astonishing small, inexpensive box.
4. Double Advents driven by dry, etched, BIG, early solid state amps because they are more fun than almost all the others.
5. McIntosh ML-1s (really!) for doing something no speaker before or since has done, and I'm not sure what that is. But listen to a big band or a violin solo, and, despite its missing top octave(s?), embarassingly reticent midrange, and wooly mushy tubby bass, there is *something* more real there that I've never understood.
6. Infinity Servo-Statik I's, for taking the joys of the KLH and adding volume (but skip the terrible woofer).
7. Braun LV-300 through LV-1020's for almost creating a soundstage and image in 1971.
8. Vandersteens, all of 'em, for getting out of the way of the music, having great balance, and reasonable prices.
9. Quad ESLs driven by tubes (Quad II or other 1950s-era) and listened to at extremely close range (like your desktop) for letting you see into the performance in ways nothing else can.
10. Paul Klipsch's early big horns for reproducing the bloom of the orchestra or band without changing the nature of the sound, as every other non-horn-loaded moving-coil reproducer does.Oh - the Tannoys, LS3/5As, Dahlquists, Concert Grands, Sequerras ... oh well.
And I cannot resist... we need a 10 worst list too:
1. Bose 901s, which I once sold, for being unmusical, gimmicky, overpriced, and having an impedence curve that wreaked havoc on many amplifiers. (Mr. or Ms. Eagle, we need to talk some day... and I'll buy the drinks!)
2. The Phillips itty-bitty bi-amped "David's", so promising and so horrible.
3. The JBL Ranger Paragons, so sexy, so gorgeous, so expensive, so big, so screechy, so honky.
4. The Infinity POS-1's, so aptly named by their engineers when ordered to make a "cheap" speaker.
5. Several of the smaller KLH speakers from the 60s (the ones on the Model 15, and maybe the 17s or 22s come to mind) for being frightfully dishonest ported jobs sold as their "revolutionary acoustic suspension" design. They didn't sound that bad, though...
6. Everything with the name "Polk" on it for reasons too numerous to even start with.
7. Infinity Servo Statik I's, for causing more problems than all my old Jags and Alfas did combined.
8. JBL studio speakers, all of them, for being partly responsible for decades of wretched recordings.
9. All those omni-directional round things from the 70s.
10. All Cerwin Vega speakers, for taking bad sound and raising its volume to the point of pain without self-destructing.Happy New Year everyone.
Bill
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