Cart before the horse. You need to fall in love with a pair of speakers and then figure out if you can afford them.
Perhaps they'll be 25K, perhaps 50K, nobody can tell.
$35000 to $40,000. speakers what would you buy and why?
I am contemplating purchasing my End game speakers. The ones that catch my eye are the Magico M3, Magico M project, Stenheim Alumine 5se, Rockport Cygnus and the Songs Faber Amati Homage G5. My system consists of An Aurender N20 feeding a MSB Technology Premier Dac with Premier powerbaye. Preamp duties are handles by An Audio Research Reference Anniversary and amplification is a pair of Lamm M 2.2 mono blocks. I currently have Magnepan 3.7i's. I love their transparency and inner detail but they do not play in the low registers. I do not want separate subs.... My room is mediums sized. I listen to mostly soft pop, classical and some light rock. I am trying to walk the thin line of tranparency vs musicality. I would enjoy some suggestions and some sound reasoning behind members choices in speakers. I do not want this to morph into a bashing thread. Please stay on topic.
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If you would consider used, then here are a pair of Vandersteen model Seven speakers. They are not the EXRM version, but they sound amazing. They do everything right. Soundstaging, disappearing, realism, musical, energetic, and effortlessly reproduces bass down to 20 Hz. They have a rear firing tweeter, for an overly damped room (otherwise, keep the dial on 0 / off). They have powered subs. So even modest tube amps can drive them. But any amps will benefit, because with the speaker's high-pass filters, your amps are asked to produce 6 db less bass. And those speakers have 11 potentiometers (one for each frequency range, starting at 20 Hz). That allows you to tailor the bass, to compensate for room issues. They mostly flatten out bass humps, but will also boost bass valleys a bit. And it is all done in the analog domain. There is no photo, but I found out that they are black.. And you can probably bargain with the price, which the store is asking $37,500. https://www.audioconnect.com/products/vandersteen-model-seven-mki-pre-owned |
Check Legacy Audio- Aeris. $30-32k depending on the finish selected. Built in powered subs. I’m a Legacy Whisper owner but I have heard these at their factory in Springfield IL. Magical. I am considering trading up to these now. I don’t know where you are, but there may be a dealer nearby. |
From my experience, you have to decide what type music you listen to, i.e. hard rock, metal, punk, grunge, jazz, blues, opera etc. Hard pumping rock requires a certain speaker and equipment to push out those thumping sound waves, all speakers will play any type music, but that heavy low bass and higher bass sound waves, that bounces off your chest with authority is special. Certain audio systems and speaker combos will reproduce solo voice (Adele, Aurora} or solo instrument (pink floyd, pearl jam, or even Yuja-Ravel piano concerto) great. However don't do as good of a job with separation of sounds on the stage in front of you, offered by a plethora of dense sounds coming from hardcore punk, or even large symphonic orchestral music, at least in a 3D since, left to right, and front to back. I personally dont listen to crossover trash rock or hardcore punk type music and only a few metal bands, I stick mostly with, classic or progressive rock, alternative rock, some electronic music, some pop, and classical genres. I needed a speaker that would do all genres very well to great, and avoided the chest vibrating, neighbor hating sound waves (as much as I love it when at friends houses) I ended up in the price range you want $30K-$40K, I gave up on my Thiel CS5 speakers and went with German Physiks Carbon mkIV, fairly small form factor, smaller than the thiel cs5's, i haven't found a need to upgrade since. German Physiks offers a larger speaker, that doubles the amount of speaker sound, I never found the carbon mkIV to be lacking in sound projection, and gives me a 3D sound landscape coupled in synergy with the rest of my equipment Good luck with your search
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