If you had to choose only ONE pair of speakers for rest of your life ...

I just really love ESL's but not practical for everything. If I was going to write reviews forever, these Dynaudio Evidence Platinums would fill the bill, maybe some GamuT RS9s, or a big pair of Focals. SF Aida's were nice too.
 
Big Focals..

Definitely.

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If somebody were to tell me that I'd have to live with a set of Rosso Fiorentino Florentia's from this point moving forward, I suppose I'd find a way to live with em'. :D
 
After getting divorced and buying a much larger house (and winning the mega-lottery along the way), I'd go for the MBL Extremes.
 
I'm not gonna talk about my own speakers cause that's tiring, so I'll have to go with the Voxativ, definitely the best speakers I ever heard. Also the most expensive and not necessarily the most practical, but wow.
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To these ears, I could live with a number of speakers that do justice to music....MacIntosh or MBL certainly doesn't do it for ME. My favorites are the top Vandersteens, or Maggies..Thiels (haven't heard the new Thiels)..even though they sound so different, they bring music to me.
 
Julot said:
I'm not gonna talk about my own speakers cause that's tiring, so I'll have to go with the Voxativ, definitely the best speakers I ever heard. Also the most expensive and not necessarily the most practical, but wow.
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Interesting unit. What are the specs and dimension ? Oh...and Price ?
 
Paul said:
Interesting unit. What are the specs and dimension ? Oh...and Price ?
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Voxativ makes their own drive, in Berlin. They are made of wood, of all matters.

This speaker is actually a flat-ish horn, as you may have guessed from the transparent one. There's only one, fullrange, active drive, with very high sensitivity. When I asked last spring in Munich, the price of the black unit was a low low 192k€ :disbelief:. Stil, to me it was the best sound in the show, if not the best value (they used their own electronics and TOTALDAC digital sources).

This drive unit is active, i.e. the magnet is replaced by a coil, with a battery power supply, and an engine made of permadur...

Dimensions: 47 x 55 x 7.5", i.e. 120 x 140 X 19 cmn, 70kg/155lbs

A really good fullrange speaker is interesting because you can dispense with crossovers altogether. We at ICOS only make a 5 way active system because no fullrange speaker would properly reproduce both treble and bass, and we don't like crossovers and capacitors, but this one feels like a possible game changer. One of these days we'll try their OEM drives see if we can do something good and expensive.

Check out their website:
Loudspeakers - Voxativ Loudspeakers
 
At 100DB goes down to 25HZ with one driver ? Impressive.

Technical data:

Frequency response 25 - 20.000 Hz
Driver VOXATIV AC-Xp
Efficiency 100 dB / 1W / 1 m
Capacity 50 W sinus

Dimensions (W x H x D) 120 x 140 x 19 cm / 47 x 71 x 7,5"
Weight 70 kg / 155 lbs
 
As for me, when I buy a component, support is just as important as performance. I only buy brands that are already successes in the market.
 
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