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Has anyone found a pair of speakers and said "I'm done"?

I’ve said I’m done before and then gotten the itch. I’d say I’m done now unless I move and get a different space. The speakers we have now sound great and work nicely in our space.
 
The great thing (at least to me) is that, buried under the apparent-hoarding, there is a genuine openness to listening around here and I really value this group because of it. Seems always to be a few people at almost every evolutionary stage, too. I think this stuff takes time and I trust a lot of people here because it's clear that sound is important to them. Guys always get to the finish line and have sweet rigs right before they die :)
 
I’s really love to hear some k-horns with a sweet tube amp sometime. The only Klipsch I’ve ever owned were kg4s mated to a marantz 2252. Never had a more love/hate relationship with speakers.
 
jamiecantar said:
Wondering if through your audio journey, has anyone found the perfect pair of speakers and said "I'm done", no need to look any further.

Which brand and why?
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I'll start: I listen to mainly Jazz, classical, easy listening and pop, some country

(BEST SO FAR)
To me, so far the best speakers I've owned are the B&W DM6's.
Amazing solid build quality, phase time aligned design, silky smooth high's, nice sound stage, accurate vocal midrange and deep bass...

In the running:
I recently acquired a pair of Dahlquist DQ-10's. and with a subwoofer, these things are amazing, maybe better than the DM6's (haven't yet A + B tested side by side) Wide soundstage, beautiful midrange. Drawback, their big and you need a large room to utilize them proper...
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yes and no, yes I've found my "only over my dead body" speakers (31yrs ago still with me), no I'm not done getting others, I like variety, plus different speakers for different needs, like 2-channel vs multi-channel, outdoor, etc.
 
Right now I could be done. Frankly I don’t think my old ears would make my system sound better to me, no matter what I had. However, if something gives up the ghost, I will enjoy the hunt for a replacement.:thumbsup:
 
ScottFan355 said:
It kind of amuses me on this site when people have a dozen+ ‘mid-high’ speakers that they swap out. Perhaps sell at least half of them and use the money to buy some truly high-end speakers?
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That's what I did. Played with some speakers from DCM, Dahlquist, and Magnepan which was fun and instructive. Along the way I also had a chance to hear a variety of speakers in a nice high end shop - big Vandersteens, some Golden Ear speakers and a variety of Wilson Audio speakers.

The Wilson speakers caught my attention every time I heard them. So I kept an eye out for a used set at a good price. Sold off most of the other speakers along the way. After a couple years of hunting I found a pair of Sophias sharply discounted and brought them home.

Never say never, I suppose, but these speakers make me happy every time I listen to them and I can't see them going anywhere.
 
After I acquired my Khorns a few years ago I said I was done and I've passed up some nice speakers since then including JBL 4311's needing to be refoamed for $40 or Polk Monitor 10's for free. I just figured I'd let someone else enjoy them although I'll bet they were picked up and resold for a nice profit. The HT system has DQ-20's and ADS speakers, AR5's in the bedroom, M&K S1's, and Dynaco A35's in other rooms, I'm happy with all of them and could listen to any of them for extended periods. I may come across something interesting that I can't resist like the free Speakerlab Super 7's I found (gf had a set of 7's) but there's nothing I really need to upgrade.
 
I have yet to hear a speaker that was better than my acoustat 2+2. Boston a400’s? Nope.
Adsl1230? Nope!
I have a pair of Energy Veritas 2.8 next to them.
The stats win by having better imaging .
A couple of months ago, I bought a pair of GNP Valkeries from a guy that makes ribbon speakers . I heard the totl set that he sells for $50k. Sounded great, had fuller sound than my stats but that could be effect of a much bigger room as these bad boys were about 6’ away from the wall!
I don’t think I’ll find anything better sounding than a pair of full range ‘stats.
 
Been through many speakers and just bought a pair of Revels Concerta2 F36 and so far I can say I've never had or heard speakers that sounded so good and I think that these will indeed be my last speaker
 
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