10 BEST Loudspeakers of ALL TIME

► 10 Best Loudspeakers of ALL TIME *according to me
MAGNEPAN 1.7i
MartinLogan CLS II/a/z
Tekton Design Pendragon
Bang & Olufsen Beolab 4000/6000/8000
Wilson Audio Sophia

10 BEST Loudspeakers of ALL TIME (according to me)
The 10 Best Loudspeakers of all time are a mix of affordable speakers, high end loudspeakers and even home theater speaker systems. From lifestyle audio brands such as Bose to high end hifi speaker manufacturers such as Wilson Audio, this 10 Best List has it all.

By the way, this list is meant to be fun. Of course, it doesn't include EVERY single BEST speaker ever - after all, there are only 10 spots in a list of 10. Did your favorite make my list?

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[andrewrobinsonreviews]

✅ *What speakers are in YOUR top 10?*
✅ *This video was created over 2 years ago. If I had it to do over again, I would have included more images.*

[TNPFan]

I blinked and missed the picture of the speaker. 😂

[MrGaryFitzpatrick]

1:00 Paradigm Atom / Mini-Monitor
1:50 Magnepan 1.6
2:58 MartinLogan CLS II
3:56 Klipsch La Scala
5:07 JBL L100
6:07 Bowers & Wilkins 802D
7:38 Tekton Design Pendragon
10:23 B&O BeoLab Series
12:35 Wilson Audio Sophia
14:32 Bose Acoustimass Series

[harleyguy]

I grew up with my father's system. He was a home audio enthusiast and he taught me electronics at a very early time in my life. He set aside time to show me how voice coils worked inside the speaker cones and how the enclosure suspended it. I remember going to his friends audio shop and my father buying a set of Bose SE-5 speakers and I helped him set them up. We were blown away by how much sound they made at such a small footprint. Years later I have moved through the rack systems, Paradigm speakers which were my first real speakers(monitor 7) and onward. My first separates were Adcom which i still have one of the amps powering my rear channels. I even worked in higher end audio in the 90's managing and store in my home town. Now I own Spatial Audio open baffle speakers, Pass labs amp, Hegel Preamp, and etc, so I have moved way passed my fathers level but I will still always remember the fun I had learning audio with my father.

[aggieengineer]

What a joy this was to watch. I was taken back to an experience in the '70s when a salesman took this teenage kid and plopped him down on a sofa in front of a McIntosh-Klipschorn system. I was gobsmacked. A couple of years later I had saved enough for my first set of good speakers, Klipsch Heresy, purchased from the same man. I spent a lot of disposable income in that shop over the years, and that first exposure to quality audio was a formative event in my life.

[drocket]

You should have kept the picture of the speakers on screen for longer so we can have a look whilst listening to you rather than forcing us to pause the video.

[jimsuber]

Klipsch. I 've owned Heresy's, Cornwalls, La Scalas, and a set of Horns. They are like being outside at a perfectly-mixed jazz festival with Weather Report or Steely Dan playing. The catch is, you're not outside. As a gigging musician, they are amazingly accurate. Thank you. Great video

[mrphilbert]

In the early 60's my dad (a physicist) designed and had built a custom horn speaker system. The horns were vacuum cast out of magnesium by the honda motorcycle company in Japan where we lived at the time. The center base horn was 4' high and driven by a 600 watt tube amp that my dad made by hand. The midrange horns were three feet square with two horn tweeters mounted above each. The cabinets were custom made by the Y L Acoustic Company in Tokyo. To my knowledge, there were 6 sets of these made. One to Tocheira Honda for doing the casting. We had to remove a wall to get the system into our house. I would love to track these down as my dad sold ours when we moved into a house here in the states where they would not fit.

[jacksonj]

Bose 901 in 70's was pretty amazing, the Acoustimas also for its size, interesting no mention of the Advent speakers.

[stevenvirdenrasmussen-jone]

The absolute best system that I have ever heard was put together by a concert violinist from the Philadelphia Philharmonic. Powered by a 220 watt Marantz amp and SAE Equalizer driving some JBL C50 Olympus S8R-2s. Because the sound was so intense, it had to be on a concrete floor, as it would shake the entire house. Listened to Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Picture at an Exhibition and the presence was beyond words. This was back in the early 70's.

[HRConsultant_Jeff]

I was at a Stereo show in San Diego 40 years ago and I went into the Cerwin Vega room. They shut off the lights and played a recording of a steam training coming into a station. The recording was fabulous including hearing people walking around, buying tickets for the train, children, etc. The sound just blew me away with the volume and clarity. They then turned on the lights and the speakers were relatively small for the size of the room and the performance.

[RafaelPernia]

Quick suggestion for future videos like this. The speaker ypu are talking about should stay on screen for more than a second. No disrespect but I don't think people tune in to se your face 95% of the duration of the video. Leave images of the speakers you're talking about. Thanks

[cyberathlete]

Of all the speakers I've experienced here are my favs:
1) Focal Sopra No. 2
2) Paradigm Persona 3f
3) Martin Logan ESL Impressions 11A
4) B&W 802 D2
5) B&W CM6 S2
6) Martin Logan Motion 40 (this sounds the best to my ears in the entire motion line)
7) Dali Rubicon 8
8) Tannoy Canterbury
9) Polk Audio LSiM 707 (just an easy to listen to speaker, and at the 75% off clearance sale, unbeaten value)
10) Bose Acoustimass (for being the game changers they were)

[MarkSmith-vmcs]

Klipsch La Scala. I purchased many speakers over the years out of curiosity. My La Scalas have been in my house, ready to go since I bought them in '83.

[SA_OperaSingers]

I did not had contact with a lot of these speakers mentioned but some of the outstanding ones that I have heard over the years and made a big impression were:

Meridian M100
Linn Isobarik and Linn Sara Driven by Naim NAP250/NAC 32.5
Acoustat Spectra 2200 (owned)
B&W Nautilis driven by Mark Levinson No.33
B&W 800 matrix series (Still own the 804 matrix)
Celestion SL600 (owned)
Thiel CS2
Magnapan Tympanis'
AR-98LS (My first set of speakers)
Proac Tablette

[mrt]

Rogers ls3/5 pre 1982. The best loudspeaker I have ever heard. No earth shaking bass no cracky crispy highs but pure emotion and a mid range to die for. Till now my number one.

[thorfinsky]

Klipsch Klipschorn AK6 is my "If I win the lottery" speaker set. I've only heard them one time but they sure made an impression on me!

[StuMcClay]

I had three Bose units around my apartment with the bass under the couch. My friends couldn’t believe those little speakers were so throaty. Lol. Thanks for bringing them up, classics for sure.

[thomasjacques]

I still have my JBL L100’s I bought in 1974. I still love them after all these decades.

[zulumax]

ESS Hiel with the AMT air motion transformer playing Pink Floyd Time on a Phase Linear system in the late 70's. That started my journey.