What's the speaker of your dreams?

[mac]

I'm living the dream.

 

[phoenixdogfan]

1. Very long time ago fave, Original Apogee Full Range Ribbon speakers
2. Just a long time ago Avalon Eidolon
3. Recent dreams, Linkwitz LX 521.4, Dutch & Dutch 8Cs. and Magico Q7s.

Have not auditioned the recent dreams, but I am very familiar with the long agos. They were in another league entirely. Heard all the Logans, the big Thiels, Dynaudios, Wilsons. Vandersteens, Beveridge, Sound Labs, Kefs, Dunlavy's, Magnepans, and B & W Nautilus. None of them approached those two speakers.

 

[thewas]

The horns I chose look great IMO and despite being huge work well in corners using the walls and floor as pseudo extentions of the bass horn.
OTOH I still like the ones I chose almost 25 years ago best.

Just out of curiosity, could you please share which are those?

 

[Frank Dernie]

Just out of curiosity, could you please share which are those?

The horns are Tune Audio Animas and my "last speakers" are Goldmund Epilog 1&2

 

[thewas]

The horns are Tune Audio Animas and my "last speakers" are Goldmund Epilog 1&2

Thank you, also out of curiosity for the correlation of your preference to measurements, do any measurements of those exist online?

 

[AudioJester]

I'm living the dream.

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Nice!, what amps are you using?

 

[Jim Matthews]

Horns...
That is example of dream realized

Meet Joe, and his amazing DIY horn speakers - YouTube

I too, saw this video when it first came out. This installation is an impressive deployment of resources, and worthy of my envy.

It motivated a turn away from large cabinets and heavy amplification.

It's the sort of thing Men do when they're in their last house.

My dream is only slightly more portable, certainly no more affordable.

 

[DHT 845]

JBL K2, very good sounding speakers, no idea how they measure.

 

[FrantzM]

Hi

It's been a moving target for the 50 years I've been in Audio. Knowing what I know now, and having learned so much from ASR (mainly) and research, at this point in time, I am dreaming (with an eye toward acquiring eventually in a few years...) of:
Pair of Genelec 8351, augmented by a pair of W371 as main speakers +7380A SAM™ Subwoofer ...

 

[mac]

Nice!, what amps are you using?

Hypex. (Too bad my signature no longer shows up).

 

[Jmsent]

I'm living the dream.

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Same here:

 

[Frank Dernie]

Thank you, also out of curiosity for the correlation of your preference to measurements, do any measurements of those exist online?

None I know of.

 

[ACHiPo]

Why is it your final pair? Did you get all the ones you wanted?

Wishful thinking I suppose. I’ve wanted them for 40 years. I’m hoping that they will scratch the itch and put my audiophilia nervosa back into remission.

 

[RichardG]

Long time listener, first time caller,

Back in the early 2000's I demo'd a set of Paradigm Reference Active Studio 40's that completely melted my face, changed me, and I have been hooked ever since. Unfortunately I was unable to afford them so I ended up buying the passive Studio 40's V2. I think they have held their own over the years but I still dream of that active pair.

So anyway, I would like to know what speaker you dream of?

Do you recall what equipment they were hooked up to during the demo? I bought a pair of used Paradigm Reference Active Studio 20s v1 a few years ago. With my current equipment they sound awful. I don't know if it is the speakers or the source equipment. The speakers might not be very forgiving of the source equipment.

 

[MakeMineVinyl]

Actually I'm serious - I'd love to hear this.

 

[mhardy6647]

I've got an RCA Radiola 18 and its outboard loudspeaker in the basement -- needs rehabilitation, though.
Eminently restoreable, though.

just like this one...

 

[Thunder22]

Do you recall what equipment they were hooked up to during the demo? I bought a pair of used Paradigm Reference Active Studio 20s v1 a few years ago. With my current equipment they sound awful. I don't know if it is the speakers or the source equipment. The speakers might not be very forgiving of the source equipment.

It was a high end place, so i'm sure they had them hooked up to something decent. It's possible they had them hooked up to a Marantz SACD. I also have a pair of the 20's v1, They sound pretty good hooked up to my Microstation BT. I basically am only streaming to them and not going for high end. Maybe there is something wrong with your 20's since the Microstation isn't anything special.

 

[MattHooper]

I tend to "dream" about speakers that could actually work in my home. I'm not all that enthused about gigantic speakers in some other gigantic
room I don't own.

To that end, I'm pretty damned close to my dream speakers already - I love my Thiels and Joseph speakers and, being a speaker whore, I'd really like to try out some Devore O/96 speakers. If I fulfill that goal, I'd basically be livin' my dream.

 

[MaxBuck]

Given how much I love my KEF R11s, I suppose their Reference 5s would constitute my "dream." But I'm quite pleased with what I have.

 

[Purité Audio]

The Devore’s literally make every track in your collection fresh and new, almost unrecognisable in fact.
Keith