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$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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andym23456
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For me, after having various moderately priced rigs over the 50 years of listening to music, I settled with and am very content with a pair of AL5  Klipsch La Scalas and two SVS 3000’s to bring up the bass. They fill my 25 x 35 Media room just fine for two channel music and 4.2 surround using my NAD M10 v3 for front and a BluOS Powernode N330 for the rears.

 

They seem to fit all of my needs crystal clearly, and with new-in-box La Scalas at  $10,000, and the SVS subs at $1900 a pair, I am perfectly happy all in at $12,000 with a pair of WB interconnect cables and the wireless SVS adapters.

I have a closet full of Martin Logan Ascents, Canton CT-2000’s, Infinity RS2’s, and TWO sets of Polk Audio SDA SRS 1.2TL’s….that will have to soon go to new homes.

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audioman58
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The. Redesigned 50 year Wilson watt puppy a true classic with premium Xover  and everything else

https://www.wilsonaudio.com/products/watt-puppy/the-watt-puppy

rsf507
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@bottomzone  said "I'd choose one of the Magico models. They're supremely engineered and have gotten rave reviews"

Agree Magico"s are well engineered BUT are very sterile sounding and not musical IMHO. This after hearing them at 2 shows and a dealers. As always you must listen yourself and decide.

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audiotroy
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Op.its either steinhheim or legacy aeris for your budget and amplifiers the lammmps are not very powerful at 18 watts the steinheims are efficient overall across all models the lagacys are perfect transparent dynamic killer bass tunable and highly efficient 

 

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douglas_schroeder
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It's relatively easy to get dynamic speakers set up in a system that will perceptually sound more articulate than the Magnepans, or nearly any dipole speaker for that matter.I reviewed and own the Kingsound King III electrostatic speaker. Even electrostats like Sound Lab can be seemingly outdone by a very capable dynamic speaker. 

Note well, it all depends on the quality of the system setup and configuration. It's pretty easy to make an ESL sound better or a dynamic speaker sound better if you know what you're doing. 

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