Your favorite speakers

[steve195527]

not my favourite speaker,not sure on that to be honest:-like too many,but most amazing I ever saw/heard were a pair of tiny monitors with metal enclosures that Nakamichi went around the UK demonstrating in the late 70's(maybe early 80's),they had them sat on some huge studio monitors for this and folk would not believe it was the tiny ones(and I mean tiny!) playing:-that is when Nakamichi produced some very very good gear!

[satanfriendly]

heard some MA Silver floorstanders (again, can't remember the model number) when I auditioned my new CD player last month and was very impressed with the sound

And that's because they are superb. I use RX6's and very little to beat them at the price. And then I bought VE member Vincula a second-hand pair of Rega R5's and when I heard them I nearly felt like being a mean sod and sending him the MA's, but my heart is not that black. The Rega's were nothing like I expected Rega to sound like and purely astounding.

Still the Silvers are great speakers. I'm just jealous of Vincula.

[theking2]

easy: ESL 57

[Sheilajeanne]

I'm no audiophile, but I inherited a pair of Realistic Nova 50 speakers with some vintage equipment I bought at a dear friend's estate sale. They've got a 6 inch woofer and a 1.5 inch tweeter, and I'm hearing song lyrics on my vinyl I haven't been able to hear since I first started wearing hearing aids at age 13! They make any other speaker I've ever owned sound like crap!

My one wish is that they were a little smaller than 14 " high. I managed to fit them on bookshelves, but only after modifying the one set of shelves so they'd fit!

Also, gotta watch where I set the volume on the stereo, or the neighbours might complain!

[missan]

By far the Guru QM60 speakers.
missan

[Keltik-er]

Hi everyone,

I've got 4 pairs of speakers, 2 of them are active and 2 passive for my different rooms as below:
1) Bedroom: Linn Kektik - active by 4 sets of Linn Klout amps
2) Living1: ATC -SCM100 asl - active with built in 350 w amps.
3) Living2: Sonus Cremona - passive by 300w. Poem amp
4) HT: Scanspeak 4 way - passive biamp by 300w and 500w. Poem amp.

Actually I still have another 2 pairs unused: Mission 770 and Epos14.

Cheers

[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