Audiogon member suggestions for a speaker that sounds good at low volume!!!

look, nothing will fix the background signal to noise issues you are going to have with SPL in the 50 range. More detail is not the answer, a quieter room, higher spl or a combination of both are!,,,. Stax makes awesome headphones and IF you keep SPL low, you will not hurt your ears..
enjoy your quest and the music!!!!
Jim

if you are looking at can's, there are so many new entries and options.  I am into can's as well as CIEM's (best I've found are the Empire Ears).  The Hifi Man Sundara is a GREAT value for a few hundy....  I'm selling my Bocote Ori's as I am only using my EE CIEMs lol....

I'm with Tomic when it comes to your situation.  Any horn in that price range will probably fatigue your ears in no time and you won't be listening as much as you want to.  I have a lot of Asian friends from the headphone world who have fallen for the Vandy's as they play so well with the lower powered tubes they love to run and they sound awesome at lower levels compared to bookshelf speakers.  

I would say there are some others in that range and size that would probably fill the bill.  It's still all about being able to listen to a well balanced speaker.

I find tube amps to be better than S.S. for sounding linear at low volumes. 

I didnt read all of the responses, but you guys are missing the obvious which is the type of amp driving the speakers. To may way of thinking this is Audio 101.

i didnt read any of the responses, get a FIRSTwatt