High Efficiency Speakers Your top 3 or more

03-27-10: Chadeffect
All should kneel before the Avantgarde Trio. It has all you could ask for in a speaker.

Depending on preference.

I once heard the Trios in a local audiophile's home. He was very proud of the system. I couldn't wait for an excuse to get out of the room.

Altec A7's, Klipschorns, Klipsch Belles, Klipsch Cornwalls - I have not had the pleasure of hearing the Avantgardes.

I read some forums where the old / vintage school of high efficiency speakers - Klipsch, Tannoy, Altec, JBLs. even Audio Notes are the only way to go. On others like audiogon the newer high eff speakers - horns, Zu, Horning,Coincident, etc. are in a league of their own. I own Zu Druids but somewhat torn about which way to look next - the classics or the moderns...having not heard any of these for myself. Short of listen for myself any experience here that is beyond dogma.

1.Impulse-H1,
2.Living Voice-Air Scout,
3.Aspara Acoustics HL1,
4.Classic Audio T1
5.Oris 150 (KCS)

Funny story - when I had a Trio audition it was so bad I felt compelled to feign death in order to escape. To make the sale convincingly I popped a drug that lowered my heart rate and respiration to almost imperceptible levels - and woke up just as the autopsy was starting!!

But I got out of the rest of that Run DMC album.