Own many mid-game speakers or a few end-game speakers.


After I got hooked into this hobby I started to have a small collection of speakers each in the $5k-$10k ranges that have various tonal quality and unique characters from each other. It doesn’t feel one speaker is absolutely better than another and they all have their own personalities, and I quite enjoy these diversity for different type of music I listen to (or hearing the same music expressed very differently which is always fun) and I’m always tempted to add more, for example, I recently get excited about Klipsch and want to try their horns which I do not have had any experience of.

But, these things quickly add up and could become endless pursuit, especially consider speakers differ not just in response curves but also in dynamic, decay, sound stage and details that are all hard to emulate with software. I’m trying to limit the max spending I have on speakers. I’m wondering what’s the perspective of upgrading v.s. buying into more diversity in this game. A few questions I have for you is, say you have $60k in budget on speakers new/used and you have infinite rooms (no amp/source), how would you allocate it (from buying 5000 Homepod Minis to one B&W nautilus) and why?
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This is a tough call.  I have two pairs of speakers I am perpetually swapping between.  I just had a blogger over to discuss systems and he is in sort of the same place.  

He is looking at upgrading to MBLs which are such cool speakers but would miss "cone and dome" sound on occasion.  His view was one big time speaker (like MBLs) and some less expensive speakers that deliver different sound.  

It's an approach.  One comment he made was that with two large speakers (MBL and say Magico) he would never swap because they are just too heavy.