What was your favorite pair of speakers ever?

Back in 1969, I had a pair of Ohm F's ... the most radical speaker design ever -- no cone drivers, just one big Walsh driver, a rounded pyramid of aluminum that radiated 360 degress. What a beautiful thing to see and hear. Someone stole 'em eventually... but I remember them fondly. They don't make that kind of thing anymore. I bought the Infinity IIA's right after that and still have 'em.

What was your favorite of all time?

Four 9" woofers, four midrange two tweeters.

Blew out the front windows of my house with them

a small nuclear power plant? Those Ohms weren't very efficient.... but my 90-watt Sansui 9090 was usually up to it.

There new reference series models are as good as it gets for me.

Like the Canadian Bose, but not crap :shrug:

of my LeCar! Plus they were good for hiding shit in, hmm, next time I'm where they are, I'll have to check for cash!

What'd they use, a forklift? I never owned a pair myself, but my buddy's friend had a a set. Powered with a Dynaco power amp and preamp they sounded killer - very clean at high levels. But, for whatever reason, were always in the shop for repair. Plus they weren't cheap.

I've always liked the bookshelf classics - AR3a's, the old large Advent's and the Bose 501's and 601's.

I'm running a set of Genesis 2's now. They're not 'blow yer windows out' powerful but nice neutral speakers.

We were living as "dorm parents" in a dorm at Lesley College in Cambridge, Mass and one night they just disappeared.... along with a lot of other small stuff. I didn't have much.... had spent it all on the Ohms! Anyway, they were a bit touchy on power.... too much and you'd fry the wires to driver. But they were sweet!

come to mind. I think it was late 60s, early 70s (my early childhood).

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Fine Speakers, both of them:silly:

Acoustat electrostatic speakers. The closest thing to being there. Unfortunately they suck power like * sucks Jack Daniels.

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I've only owned about four pair of speakers in my life.

The first were a pair of little Radio Shack aluminum-cabinet things about the size of a sheet of notebook paper that I bought in 1982 in Boston. They sounded pretty good. I kept those until 1986.

In 1984 I bought some BES speakers from the Seoul PX. These were weird things; imagine taking a regular woofer and a regular tweeter, cutting the cones off, and gluing the fronts of the voice coils to a sheet of styrofoam. That, in a nutshell, is a BES speaker. They sound great until the glue holding the driver to the styrofoam starts loosening up and they start rattling, and then they sound like shit. I have them somewhere, and if I can dig them out I may try gluing the voice coils back on with Gorilla Glue to see what happens. It may work. If not, no great loss.

In 1986 I needed some speakers quick because I was doing sound for a unit party the next day, and bought a pair of Bose 301s. I have those, they sound like Bose 301s.

When I got tired of the Bose 301 Sound, I bought some JBL 4312s. Excellent investment.