extremely high quality and extremely loud

[DD66000]

I think for a state of the art reference system having the sub right under the mains, or part of the mains is important. This is a problem with WAF. However, I had large speakers in my apartment. So my wife knew that the size of our speakers was going to be dictated by physics and not WAF at the start of the marriage

Now there is a thought process good for most any system, having the main subs below the L/R speakers. I couldn't agree more. My system isn't as near high tect as yours, but I do have the Revel subs below my JBL PT800s, so no matter how I'm listening to music, be it stereo, 5, 7 channel the main stacks are always in the mix, and providing full range sound.
As for the WAF, it doesn't count in the audio room of my house.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

...You have a little way to go to get crazy as me, but your closing in...I have fourteen amp channels to balance. I have one main preamp processor. I have three subsidiary pre amps for the turntables and three of the the tape decks...Since adding analog trimmers for all of the 7.1 channels I have not touched a thing since the last level calibration...You are beginning to show you understand something important in this post...

And they say my system is complicated?

So you have one Rotel pre-pro, which is connected to Analog Trimmers?

What is an analog trimmer?

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

but once you get tired of upgrading your preamps and amps, you will need something else to upgrade, and you will end up going back to 7.1, it's just a matter of time. Knowing you it's inevitable, and will happen probably sooner than later.

**hee**hee

In the back of my mind, I'm also afraid of that!

But if I'm going back to 7.1, I would have to get another pair of BP7001SCs. That is how my mind works. It cannot be anything else but the BP7001SCs.

However, my current HT room will not allow this due to space constraints. It would only happen when I get a new house.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

I should have defined full ranger. I'm referring to speakers that have no crossover and use one full range moving coil driver.

I have to say that if I were put in charge of the R & D department of a speaker driver manufacturer, I would make the development of full range drivers a top priority, or at least greatly extend the pass band of drivers. If we could just get the handover to the HF unit in the 5 to 6 KHz range, it would be a huge advance.

So what is the best sounding (commercially available) speaker you have ever seen?

Have you listened to the Linwitz Orion?

B&W 800D?

 

[GlocksRock]

**hee**hee

In the back of my mind, I'm also afraid of that!

But if I'm going back to 7.1, I would have to get another pair of BP7001SCs. That is how my mind works. It cannot be anything else but the BP7001SCs.

If that's how your mind works, and you have to have everything match, then you would need to get rid of your current BP7001SCs and get BP7000SCs...

 

[Pyrrho]

SOme people swear by this guy:

http://www.klipsch.com/products/details/klipschorn.aspx

Who would have thought that these would be reasonably priced products for this thread? But if one needed to save a couple thousand dollars on a pair, and/or did not have the corners for proper placement of those, one could go with:

http://www.klipsch.com/products/details/la-scala-ii.aspx

Personally, I am not a big fan of horns, but both of the above are mighty popular with some people. Then again, I am not wanting to go deaf with extreme volumes, so their capabilities are not needed by me. They do, however, have "effortless" dynamics, because with all reasonable in home use, one never approaches overdriving them. One can also use a very low powered amplifier with either one. (I have literally heard a pair of Klipshorns driven by a boom box. Look at the sensitivity rating and you will see why such things would be possible.)

Anyway, if I were looking for speakers fitting the description of the opening post, I would consider Klipschorns and Klipsch La Scalas. Sometimes, one can get a deal on them used. So you might not have to wait until you marry money to get them. They are big, and bringing them home will require a truck and probably a helper to get them into it.

 

[DD66000]

Personally, I am not a big fan of horns, but both of the above are mighty popular with some people. Then again, I am not wanting to go deaf with extreme volumes, so their capabilities are not needed by me. They do, however, have "effortless" dynamics, because with all reasonable in home use, one never approaches overdriving them. One can also use a very low powered amplifier with either one. (I have literally heard a pair of Klipshorns driven by a boom box. Look at the sensitivity rating and you will see why such things would be possible.)

Horns are more dynamic, but better horns can also be very suttle on their sound. The JBL Everest were described by one person, who was listening to Norah Jones, "it was like Norah whispering on the back of your neck."

 

[codexp3]

So what is the best sounding (commercially available) speaker you have ever seen?

Have you listened to the Linwitz Orion?

B&W 800D?

I like the Wilson WP8s over the 800D.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

If that's how your mind works, and you have to have everything match, then you would need to get rid of your current BP7001SCs and get BP7000SCs...

That would be totally nuts!
No, even I have some self-control.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

I like the Wilson WP8s over the 800D.

The Wilson Audio Watt-Puppy 8s?
Aren't they like $25K/pr???

Man, I wish they had speakers like that where I live!

Has anyone heard these B&W Nautilus play:
http://www.e-hifi.com.au/b-w/PrestigeSeries/nautilus.aspx

25 Hz - 20 kHz +/- 0.5 dB???

Geezzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

 

[larry7995]

I am looking forward to listening to all sorts of stuff I can't afford when I go to the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in October. Any other ultra cool audio festivals midwest to west this summer?