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Re: Vote: The most magical speaker you've ever heard.

Yes, Vu's horn systems are very dynamic and make you want to jump up and dance. The system he built for a customer using a massive, curled, Western Electric horn is quite amazing (and expensive). These systems tend to be more realistic with jazz, rock and pop than with large-scale orchestral music -- I really don't know why. Some of his latest versions, using large Jensen-Onken cabinets and twin 15" Altec woofers and BMS drivers fitted to large wooden sectoral horns are quite nice.

I really like the system I own: SAP J2001 (twin woofer version). It is dynamic, reasonably well balanced in tonal presentation, and presents a very large and well fleshed out soundstage. It is also a big plus that it mates with low-powered amps. I've not heard a high-powered amp that really does the trick.

Other non-custom speakers that delivered good sound (at least I thought so AT THE TIME I HEARD THEM)include: Soundlab U-1, Apogee Scintilla, Apogee Diva/Dax, Wilson MAXX/Wilson 7 multichannel system and the Edgarhorn system.

At CES and CEDIA, the following, more modestly priced systems sounded pretty good: Gradient Revolution and DeVore Super 8.


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