high-efficiency loudspeakers


 What is the best high-efficiancy loudspeakers? If you have it, are you  happy ?
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This speakers is huge. WAF-is almost zero

I’m not aware if you’re referring to any particular of the mentioned speakers, but yeah most of them are not necessarily what you’d call spouse-friendly :) I’d wager though there may be exceptions with speakers like the ones I’m referencing, being that horn speakers usually look very different, sometimes even sculptural compared to many of the more typical, direct radiating speakers, and so even being rather humongous at times they can find an unexpected approval among women simply for not looking like the usual square box, but instead like a piece of furniture or just.. well, intriguing. And that for being more or less unapologetically functional..

Actually this is an interesting and rather telling development from the outset of your question, where you inquired on high efficiency speakers and the best of their kin - sans proviso, certainly implicitly by not articulating any - and eventually the obstacle to overcome is: size. Perhaps a provocative takeaway from this would be for it to work as an analogy for the speaker industry at large; the outset initially was to achieve High Fidelity (the hidden issue to later materialize appears to be whether the reference to strive for is external, or one chiefly created around itself), but eventually the need for convenience and cost prevailed, and the rest, as they say, is history.

@bache Please be aware I’m not in any way at odds with your inquiry. I’m just using it to poke around ;)

Here’s a start..

Magico Ultimate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afi4pyrSuRs
Classic Audio Reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZWu0OOdYbc

Volti Audio Vittora https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz_Vkhgx4cs

JBL Everest Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Do6XOb4Uw&t=15s

Mark Levinson Daniel Hertz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6v7X3baUtg

I don't have any, but would be happy with any of the above... :-D

PureAudio Project OB speakers look interesting as well.  Not horns, but pretty high efficiency. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E-XEIBnxy8


You really want high end and ultimate efficiency?  The James B Lansing corner horns of the late 50's can't be beat.  The ones that have a chance for stereo placement in typical rooms are the C-34 "Hartsfields".....rear-loaded horns that do alright away from the corners (although corners are better).
Living Voice also makes less expensive speakers then the Vox Op their line of regular speakers are very good and an easy load for SET mine the Avatar 2's are 94db @6ohms nominal. I came from ANE's good but the living voice are better imo. also noted living voice tests/voices  all their speakers on Kondo gear so definatly good with tubes. I push mine with 300b love from Finale Audio / Triod Labs.