"The Ultra High-End Speaker."

I always said that everything matter ...

Electrical and mechanical working dimension and acoustical ... And even other things as cables or tweaks ...

But nothing can replace acoustic at any price for any system because our experience is acoustical anyway nevermi9nd the gear price ...My point is not about negating the value of pricier design only a fool can negate the evident fact that there is High end products with a real improved acoustic value potential ... ...

But a dedicated room can be created with time at low cost ...That is one of my point and creating a dedicated room at low cost beat often many upgrades which can be marginal one anyway ....

When i spoke about acoustic people are so confused they think about GIK panels on a wall not about acoustic concepts and the way to experiment and play with them ...

Buying gear is not enough ...

If you dont know what is the listener envelopment concept for example and how to create it in a room forget buying 100000 bucks speakers and even 1,000 bucks one will not sound optimal ... or then pay 100,000 bucks for a PRO ACOUSTICIAN ...😁

Acoustic had nothing to do with taste ...

Anyway ...

My goal is motivating people to experiment and have fun ... Not to throw their money in illusions of high end without any applied knowledge in their own room FIRST ....

I think as this poster :

Mike Lavigne did built a state of the art room.I agree with Him don’t spend big dollars until you really understand how things work in this hobby.I never want to spend money on vynil, until I knew how good it will sound.Mike is also right , dollars alone will not do it.Now a days there are many good speakers under 5k if you know what you are doing, you can easily make them sound like ultra highend.

@baylinor Thank you! I almost went down a rabbit hole with cables and power conditioning before reading a bit more. I realized that they were not the weak links and probably would not make a very big difference. Diffusion improvement was the better expenditure (with lots of measurements) and also continuing to focus on source. I improved my streamer and DAC. Updated the photo, here.

Congratulation for your room Hilde45 not only esthetical but certainly good in an acoustic way ....😊

Diffusion is key ....

Updated the photo, here.

...Ultra High-End Speaker...

I don't put labels on performance and or price levels.  Rather, I demo to find the sound I like, then try to reproduce it within my budget.  

I also owned the salon 2 and several other speakers in their price group. The persona 7f and usher be20dmd at the same time and being able to rotate speakers at will and listen as long as  wanted I was able to hear specifically to what they did different from each other. I didn't have the same luxury with components and used a Hegel H360 with all 3 speakers. The salon 2 with an 82 db sensitivity was significantly harder to drive so possibly why they sounded so lifeless compared with the other two, Yes matching with a db meter the salon 2 was still dynamically restricted  compared to the others, but a more powerful amp might have helped. The Persona 7f are excellent, but have to be 3-5' away from any reflective surfaces, they can change their stripes like no speaker i've ever heard. They can soundstage like a pair of mini monitors or large floorstanders just by changing placement. The 2x8" woofers are actually 8.25 inside the basket and can really push some air. Ushers had my favorite presentation regarding soundstage, imaging and tonal balance, but bass was too fat for my room and the speakers were to physically large to get away from boundary reinforcement. 

I found that all 3 speakers while different still had comparable quality with similar resolution ability and after owning all 3 at the same time I can't say 1 is better than the other. All 3 meet the bar of diminishing returns with excellent resolution and the deciding points after taste are room acoustics and components.

I landed on a different speaker entirely, but still couldn't help but add my .02.