Best Speaker matches for Parasound Halo JC-1's ?

On a good day, you should be able to find, used, either Maggie 20.1s or SoundLab A-3s, maybe even A-1s, within your price range. Seems there was a pair of the 20.1s on Audiogon recently for that money. My A-3s were in that ballpark a few years ago.
Jim

Try the Tekton Pendragon for $2,500, you'll be amazed.

I wrote this for another post. What it doesn't say is that the Eidolons replaced a pair of Studio 100 v2's. The Paradigms sound like multiple drivers in a box. They go deep and they go high. In hindsight they simply don't correct by comparison. The Studio's tend to come into their own at a slightly higher than normal listening level and fall apart at low levels. The difference in presentation is difficult to describe. The Eidolons are time and phase correct as are Vandersteen's to only other speaker I would recommend to anybody. Once you live with this correctness you should be able to hear the pitfalls of other designs. Yes they are worth the money, used.

{I never liked Avalon Eidolons whenever I heard them at shows and stores because they always seemed dull and sleepy by comparison. They were very highly suggested by two people I barely know who are in the industry and who have the opportunity to listen to much of what is available in actual side by side comparison to what they are producing and what they are using as their reference equipment.

Even so it seemed to me that there were many other speakers that were more dynamic, did louder bass, more sparkling highs. Trusting my own inexperienced ears I went through three of these other speakers as well as a host of electronics. I didn't even realizes that in the end all I was listening to was my system I didn't even realize my dissatisfaction.

A few years had passed and the Eidolon remained unchanged while the speakers I had chosen as well as many others I was interested in had new ramped up models almost yearly.

A pair of original owner Eidolons became available at a very reasonable price well under their used market price which made the possibility of resale easy.
That was a long time ago. Since then I have recently upgraded my digital playback as well as a new Ruby Z phono cartridge. There was nothing wrong with my electronics.

Obviously, this should sound like a tail of one's subjective taste fulfilled, and it is. Avalons generally require a great deal of room. Go online and check out their setup procedure. If you can't put them and your seating position where they belong I don't think you're going to hear the magic. Now that I've lived with them most other speaker systems simply don't sound right to me and I don't know why.

Something I never counted on with my Avalons. You'll notice their faceted appearance has been copied in one way or another more than probably anything else in home audio. Their appearance out in the middle of our living room is stunning. After all these years of ownership I have yet to tire of their appearance, the craftsmanship is outstanding. Again, subjective taste fulfilled.}
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What Rob 2 was saying about the Tekton Pendragons was spot on the Parasound Halo CJ-1,or even the A-21the CJ-1 runs in pure class-A
For the first 25 watts .the Pendragon is one of those speakers that is a
4 ohm load that is 95 db @1watt.meaning you will allways be running
In pure class A. .if you have never heard Tekton speakers it is like a direct feed from your amp,only one capacitor to he bass,and one for the tweeter
Dynamics,imaging,soundstaging,depth, and tonal balance,
If you want it to be even better opt for the Mundorf Silver oil capacitors,
And the New Pendragons using Scanspeak ring radiator Tweeters,
And Seas mid-Bass drivers in the -SE model.