Steve you miss the point, of course we are saslesman, we run an active retail shop that is not the point.
There are really two kinds of dealers, one that sticks to a particular brand year in and year out because they believe in that brand, and they may or may not be actively pursuing new and immerging brands, and other dealers that have a staple of products that they identify with and endorse, but who are also actively pursuing new products to be able to offer their clients, what they feel is the best possible performance for the price.
In the last few years we added, ATC, Quad S and Z series dynamic loudspeakers, Elac, Legacy and Rethem to our longstanding brands Kef, Dali, Paradigm, and PSB.
We moved into those brands because in each of their price ranges these products were bringing some unique attributes to the table.
As per $15k being value shopping depends on your perspective, if a $15k speaker blows away a $25k one then it is a value.
The man has a huge room which requires large high output speakers.
You also miss the point that yes there are older good speakers like the Conincidents but where can the OP hear them? Many people do not like to buy and sell and pack and ship it is time consuming and not fun.
Not to mention shipping large and heavy speakers is expensive and a complete pain, and you also forgot that sometimes older drivers are not availible and an older speaker may be diffiult to get serviced.
Unless you are going really old most of the much less expensive speakers systems will not play loud enough to pressurize that size of room.
Like it or not the Legacy’s Focus model is one of the few under $20k sets of speakers that will do the job, same thing with Tekton and Golden Ear which is why we mentioned all of those brands and other then Tekton you may be able to demo a Legacy and Golden Ear has many dealers.
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ
There are really two kinds of dealers, one that sticks to a particular brand year in and year out because they believe in that brand, and they may or may not be actively pursuing new and immerging brands, and other dealers that have a staple of products that they identify with and endorse, but who are also actively pursuing new products to be able to offer their clients, what they feel is the best possible performance for the price.
In the last few years we added, ATC, Quad S and Z series dynamic loudspeakers, Elac, Legacy and Rethem to our longstanding brands Kef, Dali, Paradigm, and PSB.
We moved into those brands because in each of their price ranges these products were bringing some unique attributes to the table.
As per $15k being value shopping depends on your perspective, if a $15k speaker blows away a $25k one then it is a value.
The man has a huge room which requires large high output speakers.
You also miss the point that yes there are older good speakers like the Conincidents but where can the OP hear them? Many people do not like to buy and sell and pack and ship it is time consuming and not fun.
Not to mention shipping large and heavy speakers is expensive and a complete pain, and you also forgot that sometimes older drivers are not availible and an older speaker may be diffiult to get serviced.
Unless you are going really old most of the much less expensive speakers systems will not play loud enough to pressurize that size of room.
Like it or not the Legacy’s Focus model is one of the few under $20k sets of speakers that will do the job, same thing with Tekton and Golden Ear which is why we mentioned all of those brands and other then Tekton you may be able to demo a Legacy and Golden Ear has many dealers.
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ