Anticipating next upgrade after B&W 803 D3?

To my ears, Joseph Audio speakers do everything better than a comparable B&W model while sounding more musical and just bringing more life and believability to sound. That’s what I heard comparing the original Pulsars to the 804 D3 last year and in other direct comparisons in the past, so I’d think there’d be a similar differential between the Perspective 2 and the 803 D3. If you’re looking for even more, go hear the Pearl 3s but don’t blame me if you hate your 803s afterward.  I’d venture I could say similar things for Vandy, ProAc, and Usher among others, but I’ve not done direct comparisons with those. Again, that’s just my ears and FWIW.

My system has the b&w’s, McIntosh 5 channel amp biwired and a bluesound node 2i and a marantz 5014 avr used as a preamp.
i am now seriously exploring the Chord Qutest dac and maybe the m scaler, which seems to be the holy grail to amazing sound. Never knew how much fun the world of dac’s could be.

calling soix  :)

@emergingsoul it's not the speaker its the mac causing what you are hearing. Before a speaker change borrow anything you can that will power the speakers it will save you a lot of $$$$

Looks like OP got HT setup. Start with source before you think about changing speakers, Bluesound Node 2i is the weakest link in your system. Adding a decent DAC to Node 2i will improve sound but.....If you’re serious about retrieving best possible sound out of 803D3 and 2 ch audio, get a better 2 ch amp with a tube or solid state preamp that has HT Bypass. Get rid of 5 ch MAC and use Marantz 5014 AVR for HT. Until you do this, don’t bother upgrading your speakers. You will be wasting your money!!!!!

I have been through this transition. My HT setup had B&W 800D2, 804D2, HTM2D2, SCMS with Krell Evolution 707 processor and Krell Evo 302 / ATI N Series amps.