Your favorite speakers

[duficity]

After more time with my PSB Synchrony One speakers, I can easily see why they have been recommended by every tester that has listened to them. Truly the finest speakers I have heard. I will live with these until or unless I can find a great deal on some Sonus Faber floorstanders or Focal Utopias.

[sstreed]

OK, here goes!

Impossible to imagine better than my AR3a's driven by Sansui 9090db. As Simon and Garfunkel said about Richard Corey: "Power, grace and style". Right now? Rita Coolidge vinyl "The Lady's Not for Sale"

Sansui: 5000, 5000A, 5000X, 6060, 5500, 9090db
Pioneer SA 9800, TX9800
AR 3a, AR 5, Large Advents, Fisher 11C and Realistic Nova 7's
Elac 50H, Dual 1264, Yamaha YP-B4, YP-B2, Garrard SL 95B, Technics SL-1950

Let's hear what is better - I'm always looking to upgrade!

[13oots2]

Bought a pair of Tannoy 611's that were going for a song on Ebay, the seller thought there was a problem but turned out to be a faulty multi-meter. Bit tatty in places but compared with my Monitor Audio RS 1's the sound was incredible, have never heard brass instruments produced so realistically. Imaging and soundstage are a step up too and was blown away for £99.

[stefancaunter]

For something Large, the Canadian Bill Woods made fantastic hard birch ply horn and driver cabinets, but not really great for in the home.
Boothroyd and Stuart (early 90s) are good, a friend had a pair.
I quite like the MDS Studiotones I have, they are very accurate and work well with 20 - 50 watts of power.

[JaS]

Bought a pair of Tannoy 611's that were going for a song on Ebay, the seller thought there was a problem but turned out to be a faulty multi-meter. Bit tatty in places but compared with my Monitor Audio RS 1's the sound was incredible, have never heard brass instruments produced so realistically. Imaging and soundstage are a step up too and was blown away for £99.

I had a pair of those 20 years ago. Lovely speakers, but IMHO the real star of the 6 range was the 609 that I upgraded (?) from. They were far too bright sounding but the imaging and dynamics were breathtaking and they went obscenely loud for standmounts

Regards,
JaS

[Daman61]

Love the following;

- Epos ES-11 (truly for rock)
- Magneplanar SMGb
- Magneplanar MG1.4
- JBL L-212
- JBL L100 (Century)
- TDL range of products

[BeEvil]

Carver Amazing Silvers. Replaced all 6 woofers and the ribbons were in perfect condition with no "Buzzing". Driving them are 2 Luxman M-05 in BTL (bridged) mode. Truely sound "Amazing".

I have been looking at DIY open baffle speakers - so far just looking ("looking" is so much less work then "doing")

Curious at what drivers you used to replace the woofers.

Sorry for such a late response. I found direct replacements that were being sold online. I just did a web sesrch. The only problem with the replacements was that the woofer baskets were just slightly too big to fit. So I had to use a dremmel to widen the opening. Not a problem as I was refinishing the cabs anyway while I had them apart. I purchased them from Dynavox. $60 per woofer.

BeEvil

[cat9]

Infinity RS 4's downstairs with the plasma - purchased new in '84 / sound great and still like new!
Dynaudio DM 2/7's upstairs on stands with TT, etc - recently purchased / very impressed for the $$

simple guy...pretty basic equipment but love the vinyl experience

Good listening!
cat9

[pyra]

SD Acoustics flagship speaker "The Ribbon" stood up to everything I have heard so far including some recent Wilson benesch, Dali's, B&W etc. Completely different to anything else I have heard, In the best way possible! I don't know of or heard of anyone else with a pair.

[Sheilajeanne]

As sone of you know, I own and operate a boarding and grooming kennel.

I just found the perfect speaker for someone like me!



Go here for details: http://www.amazon.com/OSD-Audio-DS850-S ... B0063B8EFS

Unfortunately, I think it has a woofer only...

[Grozni]

I don't know if this is the right answer. But my unfulfilled desire are Mission 783 loudspeakers.

[DualSpinsMyVinyl]

I am new to this forum. However I have been enjoying vinyl for over 55 years.
I have two pairs of speakers. My first real purchase was ESS Heil AMT-10b's in 1976
and then the second pair was Bose 901 series V purchased about 1986.
Still have both sets. However I prefer the Heil AMT-10b's over the Bose.

Arlan
Central Coast, California

[Boukman]

My unfulfilled desire would be a pair of Klangfilm Eurodyne's....

[Jonti]

KLH Model Six, Technics SB-7000 and Sony SS-G9 are the speakers that really do it for me.