Can you live with your current speaker until you die?


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Yes I can!

In my 40 years of history I had gone through around 15 speakers including

ADS, Altec Lansing, Thiel, Canton, Apogee Duetta Signature(10years), BMW 801, Avalon Ascent, Wilson Audio Watt and Puppy6.



I settled at Pacific Northwest area located just midway between Seattle and Vancouver BC around 6 years ago.

It has a nice western view of Bay and Pacific Ocean with 2 acres lot.

I could play music loud during midnight with no problem to my neighbors as long as I close the windows.


With vaulted big space, my Lansche 4.1 speakers makes a beautiful voice out of classical, Jazz or even new age music.

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I had been living with the speaker since 2007.

I do not claim that Lansche 4.1 is the best speaker in the world.

But with clean and pristine treble out of plasma tweeters and pretty good bass out of 2 10 inch driven by internal active amplifier and high efficiency (99db spec, but I believe it to be around 93db), it is hard to find better speaker with overall merit for my house.


The only catch is that it can stop working since it is an active speaker( plasma tweeter and active bass unit).

But I keep having good communication with Henry Dien of Lansche Audio who upgraded plasma tweeters twice at reasonable cost.

I can happily live with Lansche 4.1 speakers at my present house for my life unless serious health issues happen to either me or my speakers.

How about you gentlemen and ladies?

Had any one of you found the speaker for your life?


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Yes! In 1976 I built a pair of SpeakerLab Super K's using plans I bought from Speakerlab. I still have the plans. I purchased the raw components from them and used my Dads garage and table saw to build the bass horns and top units that house the midrange and Tweeter horns. These speakers are a redesigned version of Klipschhorn folded corner horns by a ex-Boeing engineer named Pat Snyder. I was still in collage and couldn't afford to buy them assembled so I did it myself and still enjoy them everyday. I have had two wives that wanted me to get rid of them because they're so big and heavy and have to be in a corner. The wives are gone but the speakers stay. I also have a pair of JBL L100's that I bought in 1972 after high school and getting my first job with my first several pay checks. I use them for my rear surround speakers with the corner horns in front. So I'm almost 65 now and have had my favorite speakers for over 42 years and still love them. I've heard speakers that I thought sounded just as good, but none better. Jim
My buddies were just teasing me about that! 
(I might need an intervention ;)
I've only owned a handful of speakers since I started at age 9 (1969).  My current and probably last speakers are Vandersteen Quatro's. I absolutely love them.  Every time I hear them with better electronics, they keep scaling to new heights.  More than pleased with the speakers as well as the service.  Richard V is always there to answer any questions I may have and Johnny Rutan at Audio Connection has also exceeded my expectations.  I have plenty of dealers around me, but I'm glad that I was in NJ many years ago as I wasn't even thinking of Vandy's.  

Lot's of great choices, but I like speakers and electronics that don't come out with a new model every three years.  
I've been accused of being a "serial monogamist" with my audio system, up until a year ago, was on a 6 to 7 year journey, swapping out one component at a time, till I arrived at the setup I have now.

I'm 65 and it's likely I'll keep the equipment I currently own now, including the Focal Sopra No2's, but with the improvements in the Focal lines in the future, who knows...

I have an "all digital" source system and it seems that the components which are advancing to a great extent are the DACs, so I might be tempted to upgrade that in a few years.