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Speakers to hang on to for LIFE

After 9 years with my Proac Response 3s, I recently decided to change speakers. As you can tell, I'm not an upgrade fever patient. I want something I can live with for years & I think the best advice I'm gonna get will be from those who have & are still living with their speakers for an extended period of time. Please tell me why too. Thanks.Bob.
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tvad
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01-15-06: Stevecham
The only speakers worth owning are those that are accurate in reproducing the original signal fed them.

And that means only Thiel or Vandersteen. ALL others are NOT accurate and LOSE much of that information by losing harmonics that are contained in the TIMBRE of instruments.

01-04-06: Stevecham
Currently running Svetlana winged EL34s purchased from Joe Sausa at NewTube (I'm not affiliated but Joe is a great guy). TungSol 12AX7s and Mullard (New Sensor) 12AT7s in the 302. I'm overall happy with the sound but as I climb the tube world as I did for the solid state system, I realize that there is probably a world of everything I'm missing.
I don't have enough experience researching speakers to dispute your claim, Stevecham, but I find it fascinating that you use tube gear considering your adamant stance on accurate speaker reproduction. I also use tubes, but isn't it generally accepted even among tubophiles that tube gear is less accurate than SS or digital electronics?
stevecham
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I use both solid state for my Thiels (Krell KCT and 400cx) and am waiting for a Rogue Cronus for my Vandersteen 2Ce Sigs. Both tube and solid state are valid electronic sources.
stevecham
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But we're talking about speakers, and I want those speaker designs that provide accuracy in reproducing the signal I am hearing from either tubes or solid state electronics. How else do you really know what you're hearing? It is common sense to choose a design that had at the heart of its execution accuracy as central goal.
tvad
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I want those speaker designs that provide accuracy in reproducing the signal I am hearing from either tubes or solid state electronics. How else do you really know what you're hearing? It is common sense to choose a design that had at the heart of its execution accuracy as central goal.
No argument from me. I like what I like, and I continue to learn more about what I like as time moves on.

I just found the dichotomy in your system philosophy to be interesting.
stevecham
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I like what I like, and I continue to learn more about what I like as time moves on.

Well said Tvad, and that is exactly why we value the 'gon.
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