SURVEY: To which speakers would you give these "awards" to... (1 Viewer)

[Arnel Enero]

Best Sounding Speaker
Worst Sounding Speaker
Best Value Speaker
Worst Value Speaker
Most Beautiful Speaker
Ugliest Speaker
Thanks for your time in answering yet another one of my regular surveys.
This is not about selecting speakers for purchase, just an exchange of ideas.

 

[rodneyH]

Best sounding-B&W 800 sig, Revel studios (I have never heard Wilsons)
Worst sounding-Bose and the cheep KLH speakers at BB

Best Value (Under $2000)-B&W CDM7NT
Under $1000-Vandersteen Model 1, B&W 602

Most beautiful-B&W 804 cherry
Ugliest-Bose accoutimass cubes, Cerwin Vegas that still are about 2 feet wide, and 6" deep (1970s style)

 

[Jason Wilcox]

-dynaudio contour 1.3se
-little KLH's I got free with my receiver

-Michaura m55
-i guess those bose floorstanders

-Hmm...vienna something....forget the name but they are gorgeus without hiding the fact that they are speakers
-KLH floorstanders with a 15 inch woofer

 

[EricHaas]

- dynaudio countour 1.3 se's
- KLH HTIB

(yes, it is coincidence that both answers are the same as Jason's)

- Axiom bookshelf speakers at factory outlet prices, Divas on sale, and Paradigms in Canada
- anything made by Bose is the worse bang for the buck anywhere

- Sonus Faber (I think Amati's)
- Some bloated Cerwin Vegas I recently saw at Fryes with massive woofs

 

[Matt_Briol]

-Klipsch Klipschorn
-Bose waver radio

-Any SVS subwoofer
-bo$e acou$ticme$$

-B&W nautilus (spelling)
-Bose 901

 

[Jason Wilcox]

haha....the only answer me and eric differ on is the most beautiful speaker........he mentions axioms as a good deal and michauras are made by axiom....also he and rodney mention the cerwin vega being ugliest and it looks almost identical to the KLH i mentioned

 

[Justin Doring]

Best Sounding Speaker: Martin Logan Statement E2

Worst Sounding Speaker: I have no idea

Best Value Speaker: NHT 3.3

Worst Value Speaker: Bose 901

Most Beautiful Speaker: MBL 101 D Radialstrahler

Ugliest Speaker: B&W Nautilus 801 (When John Williams first saw them at Abbey Road Studios, he said they looked like R2D2!)

 

[Cam S]

Best Sounding Speaker:
Klipsch RF-7
Worst Sounding Speaker:
Anything by Nuance or Bose!

Best Value Speaker:
Klipsch RF-3
Worst Value Speaker:
Bose anything

Most Beautiful Speaker:
Klipsch RF-7 in a cherry veneer
Ugliest Speaker:
Cerwin Vega anything

 

[EricHaas]

Hey Jason, I'm honestly not copying you! I having been lusting after the 1.3 SE's for a long time now. And I didn't know the Vegas looked like the KLH's, though I can well imagine they do. All cheapo bloated towers tend to look similar.

 

[Jonathan K]

Best Value: Those new Rockets
Worst Value: Anything by Bose...

 

[Tyson]

Best sound - VMPS RM-40's
Worst sound - Sony speakers

Most beautiful - nOrh marble 9.0's
Ugliest - Def Tech BP3000TL

Highest value - VMPS 626R (for 2 channel) or nOrh mini-9.0 (for HT)
Worst value - can there be any question on this one? Bose of course.

 

[Jason Wilcox]

no no, i'm not accusing you of copying me. i just think its pretty funny. neat coincidence

 

[Tom Brennan]

I think the best looking speaker is the Klipsch Belle in oak with cane grilles.