The greatest speakers ever?

[Pearljam5000]

What in your opinion are the greatest speakers ever made?

 

[Purité Audio]

Paid schill will say anything for money.
Keith

 

[Matt_Holland]

Very hard to be inspired by Andrew Robinson and very hard to answer the question.

Perhaps one of the most enduring and much loved would be Quad ESL 57.

For services to recorded music - Yamaha NS10.

 

[xanalog]

Our trusted friend Erin thinks that the MoFi SourcePoint888 is as good as it gets.
Not just at the $5k price range but I think he puts the SP888s in his top-5 list he has tested... w/o robbing a local bank [<< my words].

Maybe one (or a few) of us should post a link to Erin's yt video... but strictly as a PSA.

 

[Somafunk]

Yeah but what does Kristi think of them?

 

[xanalog]

Yeah but what does Kristi think of them?

ummmm... Who be Kristi?

 

[ivayvr]

Probably not the greatest, but the pair I still have a clear memory of, after forty years! They were probably the MK 1 version of B&W 801.

 

[Somafunk]

ummmm... Who be Kristi?

Kristi is the voice of Robinsons wife/gf ?, she’s often overlaid into his videos towards the end, acting as the honey pot to ensure that sad audiophiles watch/listen to the end of his videos.

 

[RickS]

My opinion is the OP needs a better summary soon.

 

[Pearljam5000]

My opinion is the OP needs a better summary soon.

My English is not perfect

 

[RickS]

My English is not perfect

Will let it pass as missed that it was not a link to offsite content.

If it were, ASR rules call for a description of the content. I did not make the rule, just get to enforce as consistently as I can.

 

[xanalog]

My opinion is the OP needs a better summary soon.

An admitted subjectivist is being asked to define "soon".
Should there be an "or else" follow thru?

 

[RickS]

An admitted subjectivist is being asked to define "soon".
Should there be an "or else" follow thru?

I think I can safely claim this is one of the most timely closures ever at ASR!

 

[Duke]

I haven't watched the video, but can recall quite well that almost forty years ago the WATT/Puppy very quickly became a standard for comparison. And several generations of ballpark-similarly-priced loudspeakers since then arguably were measured against the WATT/Puppy yardstick, whether literally or figuratively. So generations of designers had to wrestle with how to do better than whatever iteration of the WATT/Puppy was on the market at their time.

And I don't remember many three-way speakers before the WATT/Puppy that were a effectively two-way speaker with a matching subwoofer (whether in the same enclosure or separate, and using the subs as stands was quite elegant).

Whether it's the "greatest speaker ever" I'm not equipped to judge, but I think it was an extraordinarily influential loudspeaker.

 

[xanalog]

Summary:

• Quad ESL 57.
• Yamaha NS10
• MoFi SourcePoint888

 

[RickS]

Have to second the earlier nomination for the b&w 801. Notably, the earlier ones with large single woofer.

Not saying they deserved the best speaker, but was my impression from the later part of the previous century.

 

[Pearljam5000]

I'd say the Nautilus is the greatest and most iconic speaker ever made

 

[RickS]

I'd say the Nautilus is the greatest and most iconic speaker ever made View attachment 466095

Pretty major claim. Will see if it holds up. Were they ever used at a major studio?

 

[Pearljam5000]

Were they ever used at a major studio?

Unfortunately I don't know but I assume so

 

[xanalog]

I'd say the Nautilus is the greatest and most iconic speaker ever made

Did the OP (you) initially start this thread as a part of a "price is no object" purchase decision-making research, or as a question about the validity of Kristi's hubby/bf claims?