If you had $12,000 for speakers and amp

JM Labs 927Be speakers with YBA passion integrated and money left over for some swell cables. A very well rounded system that does a lot of things right. Probably not much better without spending a whole lot more money.

Of course that is my opinion only. This is a really tough question without knowing what kind of music you listen to, what kind of room you have, and what your significant other thinks of big speakers in your room.

Jcb2000, if I had a budget of $12000.00 to spend on used speakers and amps I would choose the following: 1) MG-3.6's 2) Pass Labs X-600 monoblocks. This combination would offer great sonic beauty and that special planer trait of filling a room with the music in a very natural way. The 3.6's are one of the great bargains of the high-end to begin with, bought used they offer so much you would have to spend thousands more to get a better sounding speaker. The 600's were the best sounding Pass Labs X series amps and offer the current and 120 watts of class A power to make the Maggies really "sing". You would still be about $2000.00 under budget, which you could use for the other gear in your system.

i would buy vandersteen 3a signatures new with a 2b bryston amp , aes djh pre tubed amp, with transparent plus speaker biwire with jumpers and transparent plus interconnects...save a ton of money and buy linn or cary used cd player and buy music...if not the amp pre amp combo then a plinis 8100 intergrated....save money buy music which is just as important...thanks for the question and letting me respond

Well, I'm not much for box speakers, so Soundlab/Apogee/Maggies as speaker choices for me...amps would depend on which of those three I went with. Could be tubes or solid state...depending.

Dave

I would do exactly what I did : Legacy Whispers and McCormack DNA-500 amp. Lots of power, musicality, detail, imaging, layering, etc. They work really well together - the Whispers just sing!
If you're careful, can be done for about $12K used.