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Your Favorite Loudspeakers of all time whether you owned them or not

terryforsythe

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Of the ones I have listened to, Infinity Reference Standard. I had not kept up with the audio industry for many years, so its a safe bet better speakers have come out since then.
 

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Did Andrew Jones have anything to do with those?

Even though I myself have little info on your point, you can find several related posts if you would search through entire ASR Forum with keywords of "Andrew Jones TAD".
 

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Difficult to answer : I would say my best listenings in absolute but pure subjective terms were all along my more than 45 years : TAD 2401 Twin, TAD Reference R1 and her littel sister Compact Reference, Klinger Favre Studio 30, JBL Everest DD 67000, JMR Adara, Duntech Emperor, Genelec 8361 plus Sub W371A and the very old Quad ESL63 and Yamaha NS 1000 monitor.
 

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JBL 4350 studio monitor

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...never owned them, sob.
 

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TAD Reference One
 

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All very different sounding, but all quite good.

For home music listening and home theater:

Klipschorns:
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Klipsch Jubilee:
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Various JBL 3 way speakers including the Everest:
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Bozak Concert Grands:
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Bozak Symphonies:
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Various Tannoy speakers
(haven't kept up)

... and for movie theaters:

Designed for 70mm Todd-AO by Ampex & JBL
"Jim Lansing Theatre Sound System" of 1954
(Also Manufactured as Westrex T550 and Ampex 6000C)
© Harman International, Courtesy Mark Gander and John Eargle. Imagine 5 of these behind a huge curved screen, with lesser surround speakers scattered around the theater.
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OR, Altec's version:
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OR a Klipsch Version, the KPT Cinema Grandeur:
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I would like to know what Your Favorite Loudspeaker of all time is whether you owned them or not

Can be more than one Brand

and I will kick it off with my favorites

B&W 801 , Quad ESL-63 , Bose 901 , Klipsch La Scala , and several That were DIY speakers .....was fun to build speakers

Grimm LS1be
 

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I haven't really met a speaker I didn't like in some way or the other. Currently I rotate 4 pairs of speakers in and out, and my inability to do an A/B comparison in any meaningful way, means they and a couple of others are still with me and some of those for many,many years. The speakers at the moment are a pair of Harbeth C7-es2's, Adam T5v's, Klipsch RP160m's and a pair of custom built two way sealed bookshelf speakers.

Two of those I use with EQ settings from ASR, namely the Klipsch and the Adam's, the other two are used without EQ to my subjective ears they do not need EQ at all.

That said no matter what pair I play they reinforce the strengths of the other three pair and make me more aware of the each speakers sound profile. I could and can live with all the speakers although they present a little differently but I could probably be contented with any one of them truth be told.

I don't think I have the ear to pick a bad speaker as such, but overtime I could rank them in preference and probably find some redeeming character in all of them.
 

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Dahlquist DQ-10
Fascinating speakers. I've heard several people say they like them. Reminds me of the bird that shouldn't be able to fly but did anyway.

Here data and measurements on them:

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https://hifigoteborg.se › pdfPDF
(can't copy in the pdf link, see attached picture, www.hifigoteborg.se for how to google that pdf:))


"DAHLQUIST DQ-10 Phased Array

Translation graph below:
Speaker test results
Type:
Belongs to certificate no. 75110.88
Appendix 2 -H?
Belongs to certificate no. 75110.88
Appendix 2 -Hl
Frequency curves in reverberation rooms
Manufacturer: Dahlquist
DQ-10
Supplier: Nord PressAP
Nominal impedance: 8ohm
Signal voltage across the speaker: 2.7 V noise, 30 Hz bandwidth
Efficiency: 0.08%
Frequency curve, the 0 level * 50 dB rel. 1 pW
harmonic curve, 0-level * 30 dE rel. 1 pW
Scale: distance between each scale bar = 1 dB
The speaker was measured on the floor 15 cm from the wall
Loudspeaker tone control in max. mode (max. treble)"

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In order of preference:

1. Linkwitz LX521.4 ( don't own them, my room is too small)
2. Linkwitz LXstudio (current speakers, using bass module from #3)
3. Linkwitz Orion - (2004 to 2017)
4. Dahlquist DQ10a (mirror imaged version of the DQ10) (1976 to 2003)

The constant here is open baffle design.
 

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The constant here is open baffle design.
Then I think you should check these out::)
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6:30 in the video:


In this thread Perry Marshall tells more about them:

 

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JBL 4350 studio monitor

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...never owned them, sob.

I've seen lots of the articles and videos of Japanese audiophiles and their obsession with such massive old school speakers. Never heard one, but would love to, just to see what the fuss is about (or not).

This video channel has tons of examples of big-assed speakers:


 

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I've seen lots of the articles and videos of Japanese audiophiles and their obsession with such massive old school speakers. Never heard one, but would love to, just to see what the fuss is about (or not).

This video channel has tons of examples of big-assed speakers:



I heard what must have been JBL 4350 or JBL 4355 (shown in Jimi Floyd's post quoted by Matt Hooper) in a studio, while they were mixing a master.. By memory, they sounded great -- much like our Klipschorns with truly exceptional CDs and SACDs, but this was before I had CDs, SACDs, or our Klipschorns. It must have been in the late '70s. The 077 or 2405 supertweeters sounded clear and sweet. They both got a lot of flak from some audiophiles for sounding harsh, as did their predecessor, the 075. Whenever I heard them from tape, including from my Crowns @ 15 ips, they sounded fine. But from vinyl they were sometimes a bit harsh, even with an SME/Ortofon "light" moving coil set-up. I suspect some distortion was lurking in vinyl grooves from time to time in those days. The college class I was in then (Discover Your Ears) went to every recording studio in San Francisco at the time. The engineers sometimes said most studios modified their monitors, and I heard somewhere that some studios would order a bunch of tweeters, test them, use the best in their monitors, and returned the rest to JBL. I knew Klipsch did that, testing many EV T35s, promoted the best to become Klipsch K-77s, and returned the rest.
 

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Previously owned but no longer do (stolen)
Infinity RS-2B

Favorites from models I get to play with and take home from work
Genelec 8260
Genelec 8341
Kali SM-5-C in house currently. Would love to do shootout with the others so tough to pick clear winner
 

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Never owned them:
- Klein & Hummel O500C
- Grimm LS1be with MFB subs
- Kii Three with BXT
- Martin Logan CLS (just for fun)
 

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For me I guess that would have to be the Apogee Grand ribbon speakers ...

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You beat me to it!

Of the never owned list….

Apogee Grand

MBL 101 line.

ESP Concert Grand

Those giant Sound Lab electrostats.

Avant Garde Trio with the stacked horn woofers

There was a company called Cello that made a speaker called the Concert Grand that was really spectacular.

All of these have been well above my budget!

(Insert: of course, this was all sighted listening.)
 
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