The perfect speaker

[chelsea]

What mix of speaker to make your perfect combo.

Whether it be bass from a celestion or mid from a 57 or ls3/5a or a bc1spendor tweeter.

Over to you.

[spendorman]

Have wanted to try Kef B110 + Celestion HF1300 + Coles 4001G

[Reid Malenfant]

Tweeter - Yamaha NS1000 3cm Beryllium (JA-0513)
Midrange - Yamaha NS1000 8.8cm Beryllium (JA-0801)
Upper bass/lower mid - Monacor SPH-225C
Bass - Creative Sound Solutions SDX-15

Coming soon, as soon as i get some space & my arse in gear

[Barry]

How about stacked Quad 57s, used full range, with a Kelly ribbon tweeter coming in above 10KHz?

Bass? I don't know, but I'm sure REL do a good active sub-woofer for those frequencies < 40Hz.

[Jonboy]

How about stacked Quad 57s, used full range, with a Kelly ribbon tweeter comming in above 10KHz?

Bass? I don't know, but I'm sure REL do a good active sub-woofer for those frequencies < 40Hz.

gets my vote having had a simular setup

[Neil McCauley]

My vote goes for the Mark Levinson HQD system on everything and I do mean everything except visual appeal. Sonically both the Alpha and the Omega. Such a tragedy to see what that once great organisation has become.

Signal source? the Mark Levinson ML5 reel to reel.

[Barry]

My vote goes for the Mark Levinson HQD system on everything and I do mean everything except visual appeal. Sonically both the Alpha and the Omega. Such a tragedy to see what that once great organisation has become.

Signal source? the Mark Levinson ML5 reel to reel.

That is more or less what I described. Never got to hear a HQD system, but I'm sure these days the massive (24 cu. ft.!) pair of woofers could now be replaced with active sub-woofers.

Agreed they were imposing and sadly I don't have the room for stacked Quad 57s, but they "don't half sound good"!

Regards

[Neil McCauley]

That is more or less what I described. Never got to hear a HQD system, but I'm sure these days the massive (24 cu. ft.!) pair of woofers could now be replaced with active sub-woofers.

Agreed they were imposing and sadly I don't have the room for stacked Quad 57s, but they "don't half sound good"!

Regards

I heard them at the Levinson USA factory in the 1980s. A few seconds of anything, even at a low SPL told an experienced listener all they need to know.

As a point of reference, on that trip, but in Chicago I listened at length to the Infinity IRS system and The Beveridge 2-SW2. In terms of bass articulation, the IRS was it. In terms of sheer musical credibility in the upper mid to extreme top and visual elegance (depending on your taste) it was the Beveridge.

In terms of combining all of this and yet in a system of such visual awfulness as to be indescribable using civilised language, the HQD had it all.

Meanwhile, what was the pinnacle of UK speaker design at that time – according to the Haymarket Publishing zombies? It alternated between the Linn Kan, the truly musically destructive Sara and the unspeakable Isobarbarick. How quaint.

[technobear]

Bass, mid and treble all coming from the same driver.

Headphones probably do it best but there are some excellent single driver speakers out there and also quite a few which add low bass and high treble without screwing up the midrange through a phase distorting crossover.

[griffo104]

A few years ago I heard a complete, and I do mean complete Ensemble system and for the first time I think I actually enjoyed and understood what digital was capable of. A great sounding system of which the speakers did their job.

I still think a good speaker is totally dependant on the system driving it. Bot just a Linnie viewpoint but coming from an IT background GIGO has always been at the forefront of my thinking and it still does to this day - pretty much in everything and not just hifi.

However if anyone wishes to give me a nice pair of Magico speakers to prove me wrong I'm willing to give it a go