The best speaker you ever heard?

Detlof, i agree that 'live' music can humble reproduced music.....but not always. in fact; the odds are dramatically against 'live' music sounding very good at all in most venues. either too loud, or lacking focus, or not in balance, or bad listening position, or outdoors and lots of issues. 75% of live music have at least some of those issues in my experience. our brains can compensate for sound problems and we can still be swept along with the live performance.

OTOH the 'live music experience' cannot be duplicated in our homes.

there are a few local Jazz clubs and smaller recital halls which do offer consistently excellent live music performance.

regarding 10hz; my experience is that 10hz which has distortion is lethal and a bit scary; but 10hz which is controlled and effortless is really wonderful. it's more a feeling than something you hear. recently i made some adjustments to speaker placement and my bass settings which made subtle but significant improvements to my bass accuracy. it made a huge difference in the coherence of deep bass.....which allowed my body to stop tensing up when i knew that very deep bass was coming.

aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......music.

"aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......music"
How right you are.........
That's happiness.

Guys, I made a response earlier and either somehow forgot to send it or had it blocked. It was primarily a response to Mike, saying why I found all speakers I have listen to to be compromises and that what I want and will never get, is a point source, fully range, no crossover, high efficiency speaker. Until then I have to choose which of the above are more important to me. After years of single drivers with high efficiency, I am back to a two way with a very limited crossover but lacking the efficiency that I would prefer, forcing me to sell my Reimyo PAT777.

I will forego my previous comments about the H-Cat amp other than to say it makes me realize that electronics may be equally compromised as speakers.

Any way, as others have said, I have adjusted to the reality that I have to be happy with great performances and something close to realism.

And that Tbg is where the goosebumps come in to play...

Mtkhl, yes. Long ago I thought I was pretty close to realism then about 5 years ago I thought wow this is now much closer. Then about 3 years ago, etc. I am running out of life time, but enjoying the rewards of my effort to find the best equipment for realism. It is very fragile as I recently found.