alternative to maggies?

1. Get a Dog, loose the cat
2. Declaw the cat
3. Seriously, nothing else does what Maggies do for the same amount of money. I would try to find a stand mounted monitor that you really like. Maybe a pair of Sonus Faber Cremonas would do it for me, but I don't see them as rock speakers. Floor standers with fronts all the way to the bottom suffer the same abuse.
4.Back when I had cats, I had ADS speakers with the metal grills. I don't know if any modern speakers have metal grills, but maybe picking up a well cared for pair of 1290's or 1590's would work. They will be decent rock speakers, even though they are old.

Meadowlark's latest series before folding. I owned the Kestrel 2's before switching to Maggies. Great sounding speakers (excellent for jazz), but will probably need to add sub(s) for bass on rock (same as Maggies).

Get rid of the Cat Or have its own play speakers to hit on.

The Gallo Reference series are very good speakers and throw up a very lifelike soundstage. Additionally, unlike the Maggies, their dispersion is much greater resulting in a much wider sweet-spot. Read the reviews, these are world-class speakers...

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Loose the cat, or does the wife have't go first?