Missing the forest for the trees

@david_ten

Frankly speaking it is not easy to find all round player to play all kind of music.

B&W 801 driven by Jadis 500(350 tube Watt) gave me the most deep and powerful bass.

Full range speaker driven by 300B SET amplifier gave me the most round mid range sound with good timber.

I had been using Lansche 4.1 for 11 years so far and I may use it until it stops working(it is an active speaker).

It is slightly behind B&W801 in terms of dynamics and slight notch behind full range in roundness of mid range.

But it is kind of all round player with two 10 inch driver with internal active amplifier and high efficiency (spec 99db/w, but my guess is around 94 db/w from the experience of 99db/w full range).

You have to compromise between several factors.

Lansche 4.1 has very pristine treble due to its plasma tweeter.

Thus it is very difficult to find another speaker that suit my taste.

I am happy with Lansche 4.1 in my spacious listening space with high vault.



You have to find one which suit your taste compromising some factor.

But I know the tweaks in power supply do play important factors,

Power conditioner ( I had been happily using Spiritual Audio VX9 for 5 years), power cables, high end fuse and something like Perfect Path Technology matt and e-cards help to tame the sound.

There is no perfect speaker in the world.

Perfect speaker would be the size of a concert hall to be able to reproduce the sound of a full orchestra. And can you imagine amps to drive them ? And the size of your listening room.

Western Electric system used in theaters in early 1900’s are too big to use in ordinary house but very efficient 110db/w and be driven by 20 Wattts amplifiers to get enough sound for the whole theater.

One of my billionaire friend have several Western Electric system.

Every time I hear his system, I got amazed to death.

But I can not afford it.

I am just happy with my current system based upon Lansche 4.1 while doing small improvement from time to time.

A great sounding system playing a great recording actually will reproduce the sound of a concert hall with amazing detail...ambient crowd sounds, reverberant hall sound...it's all there...compare a studio orchestral recording to a live concert hall version...you can easily hear the difference.

Weeding out the junk in my LP collection. Cutting back from the 4,500 I had to 3000 LPs. Positive experience so far. finished the Jazz, Listened to all the stuff I did not remember, got rid of all the junk and impossible to listen to (think later Archie Shepp tootling atonally for the whole LP...), kept the stuff. I like...  am almost finished doing the same with the Rock. Classical is a bit harder.. (Like I listened to all EIGHT performances of Scheherazade I owned.. Kept 4 dumped 4. One item down, 1000 to go.                      
So basically changing from collecting for collecting sake. To playing listening to what I like. Gettin' OLD and have no need for an endless mountain of possible stuff to listen to. (3,000 should be plenty)