whats your favorite speakers

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Mackie 824's for work and almost anything else for pleasure as long as it's bi-wired and bi-amped. 

Ten years ago, I would've said Tannoy but they are not good price/quality ratio because the are too expensive. I have B & W in Holland and JM Lab in Brussels , old Pionneer speakers in my hideout in the Ardennes.

 I am not an audiophile nut but speakers are the most important part of a Hi-Fi. One should spend around 65 to 70% of his budget on speakers (and not forget the good cablings to those).

I have not tried surround sound on my hi-fi but was not too impressed with that at a friend's house.

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I'm not an audiophile.

I've never had a decent stereo and my speaker selection has usually been what I could scrounge together and make work with a pair of wire strippers and a soldering iron. I've been known to listen happily to an 8-track with a built-in mono speaker.

Right now, most of my music comes through a crappy 2.1 set by the cheese-merchants at Creative...before that, my music was forced to go into a 100-watt P.A. amplifier by Radio Shack and a pair of beat-up Acoustic Research speakers (the corners of which were seriously torn and frayed from an aggresive tom cat continually shaprening his claws).

However, if I were to pay exorbitantly for speakers, my money would go for a set of these cute little guys:

 

I have a great system but a pair of pretty crappy TDL RTL 3s (woolly bass, fizzy treble)

I'm in the process of trying to save for a pair of System Audio 1280s. These are really great Danish speakers - no wider than a CD case and with awesome bang for buck. For me they certainly beat the living crap of any similarlky priced B&Ws, which I find to boxy, with awful mids.

The Sys Audios have a lovely soundstage, great dynamism and lovely bass and trebel. They do lack a little in the midrange and reverbs can sometimes be too haphazardly displayed but I think they're great value for money and look a treat too. The 1280s come in at about Euro1600 - well worth a listen.

www.system-audio.com

 

mirco wrote: goose wrote: Beau Heem wrote: Besides, I hardly ever listen to music... ? This  is one very suprising statement.

I quess an explanation is needed...

in our world today, music (or at least what is referred to as such) is used as an integral part of everything. Our ears are filled with voices and noises that the vast majority of people simply ignore or, at least, don't react to. This noise is ever-present in all places, where any kind of commercial activity takes place or is supposed to take place. Every grocerie story, chemists, bar and restaurant use background music to "create atmosphere" or to bring new customers in. Such a development is ununderstandable and it makes my ears bleed.

Try it yourselves;
Try to buy a banana without having to listen to "music"
Try to get to talk with your Internet Service Provider's Customer Service without having to listen to music
Try to walk through your home town without having to listen to music

This overuse of our ability to hear makes it impossible for me to listen to anything at home. i have to let my ears (and my brain) rest.

When I actually feel like listening to something, I do. but I could not imagine putting a record on as background music, and listening to it passively, because that is what I (and all of you) have to do all the time.

Cheers

-Beau

Beau Heem wrote: Besides, I hardly ever listen to music...

?

Quad ESL and L's are great speakers!! If I had a set
of em Id vote for em too!

Edited by DallasBryan

whats your favorite speaker?

why is 2 channel much better for music than
surround sound.

I own a set of Tannoy Edinburgs.

I recommend Tannoy System 800 to anyone looking
for a decent priced home speaker system.

I recommend anyone looking for American speakers
to look past the consumer stuff(Infinity, JBL, AR,
Klipsch, Energy, Polk Audio, and Pinnacle) and find
you someone that can supply you a listen to a set of
ADS speakers(hold on do they not make floor
standing speakers now? Looks like everything is in
wall stuff now, I will find out)

Whats your opionion on speakers?

Edited by DallasBryan