10 BEST Loudspeakers of ALL TIME

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I blinked and missed the picture of the speaker. 😂

I grew up with my father's system. He was a home audio enthusiast and he taught me electronics at a very early time in my life. He set aside time to show me how voice coils worked inside the speaker cones and how the enclosure suspended it. I remember going to his friends audio shop and my father buying a set of Bose SE-5 speakers and I helped him set them up. We were blown away by how much sound they made at such a small footprint. Years later I have moved through the rack systems, Paradigm speakers which were my first real speakers(monitor 7) and onward. My first separates were Adcom which i still have one of the amps powering my rear channels. I even worked in higher end audio in the 90's managing and store in my home town. Now I own Spatial Audio open baffle speakers, Pass labs amp, Hegel Preamp, and etc, so I have moved way passed my fathers level but I will still always remember the fun I had learning audio with my father.

1:00 Paradigm Atom / Mini-Monitor 1:50 Magnepan 1.6 2:58 MartinLogan CLS II 3:56 Klipsch La Scala 5:07 JBL L100 6:07 Bowers & Wilkins 802D 7:38 Tekton Design Pendragon 10:23 B&O BeoLab Series 12:35 Wilson Audio Sophia 14:32 Bose Acoustimass Series

I was at a Stereo show in San Diego 40 years ago and I went into the Cerwin Vega room. They shut off the lights and played a recording of a steam training coming into a station. The recording was fabulous including hearing people walking around, buying tickets for the train, children, etc. The sound just blew me away with the volume and clarity. They then turned on the lights and the speakers were relatively small for the size of the room and the performance.

You should have kept the picture of the speakers on screen for longer so we can have a look whilst listening to you rather than forcing us to pause the video.

Bose 901 in 70's was pretty amazing, the Acoustimas also for its size, interesting no mention of the Advent speakers.

What a joy this was to watch. I was taken back to an experience in the '70s when a salesman took this teenage kid and plopped him down on a sofa in front of a McIntosh-Klipschorn system. I was gobsmacked. A couple of years later I had saved enough for my first set of good speakers,Klipsch Heresy, purchased from the same man. I spent a lot of disposable income in that shop over the years, and that first exposure to quality audio was a formative event in my life.

Klipsch. I 've owned Heresy's, Cornwalls, La Scalas, and a set of Horns. They are like being outside at a perfectly-mixed jazz festival with Weather Report or Steely Dan playing. The catch is, you're not outside. As a gigging musician, they are amazingly accurate. Thank you. Great video

In the early 60's my dad (a physicist) designed and had built a custom horn speaker system. The horns were vacuum cast out of magnesium by the honda motorcycle company in Japan where we lived at the time. The center base horn was 4' high and driven by a 600 watt tube amp that my dad made by hand. The midrange horns were three feet square with two horn tweeters mounted above each. The cabinets were custom made by the Y L Acoustic Company in Tokyo. To my knowledge, there were 6 sets of these made. One to Tocheira Honda for doing the casting. We had to remove a wall to get the system into our house. I would love to track these down as my dad sold ours when we moved into a house here in the states where they would not fit.

The Bose 901s, may not have been the best sounding speaker of all time, but it certainly was a revolutionary design. I think like "pound for pound" for boxers, dollar for dollar speakers, it's gotta be up there! You have to respect the science behind the design, the the emphasis on psychoacoustics of the real world vs the theoretical anechoic chamber measurements, made them great in real life and less so in the lab... which is all that matters, and that's no small feet.

That’s awesome on your Bose story! Growing up my grandpa had a Bose Acoustimass system in his living room which led me to my love for speakers and along the way I’ve collected a few myself!

I still have my JBL L100’s I bought in 1974. I still love them after all these decades.

I had three Bose units around my apartment with the bass under the couch. My friends couldn’t believe those little speakers were so throaty. Lol. Thanks for bringing them up, classics for sure.

I did not had contact with a lot of these speakers mentioned but some of the outstanding ones that I have heard over the years and made a big impression were: Meridian M100 Linn Isobarik and Linn Sara Driven by Naim NAP250/NAC 32.5 Acoustat Spectra 2200 (owned) B&W Nautilis driven by Mark Levinson No.33 B&W 800 matrix series (Still own the 804 matrix) Celestion SL600 (owned) Thiel CS2 Magnapan Tympanis' AR-98LS (My first set of speakers) Proac Tablette

Of all the speakers I've experienced here are my favs: 1) Focal Sopra No. 2 2) Paradigm Persona 3f 3) Martin Logan ESL Impressions 11A 4) B&W 802 D2 5) B&W CM6 S2 6) Martin Logan Motion 40 (this sounds the best to my ears in the entire motion line) 7) Dali Rubicon 8 8) Tannoy Canterbury 9) Polk Audio LSiM 707 (just an easy to listen to speaker, and at the 75% off clearance sale, unbeaten value) 10) Bose Acoustimass (for being the game changers they were)

The absolute best system that I have ever heard was put together by a concert violinist from the Philadelphia Philharmonic. Powered by a 220 watt Marantz amp and SAE Equalizer driving some JBL C50 Olympus S8R-2s. Because the sound was so intense, it had to be on a concrete floor, as it would shake the entire house. Listened to Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Picture at an Exhibition and the presence was beyond words. This was back in the early 70's.

ESS Hiel with the AMT air motion transformer playing Pink Floyd Time on a Phase Linear system in the late 70's. That started my journey.

I owned JBL "Century" L100's for many years, back when I had my first Pioneer, the SX-750. (I'm old.) Loved them and still do.

My brother bought a pair of La Scala back in the late 80s or early 90s and still has them today. Can't wait to tell him.