Speakers - Your "Safest" Choice

@davetheoilguy 

Your post was very interesting, can you expand a bit more on that? Where do you find the speakers? Are you referring to baseball players buying gear for 6 weeks of use?

I’m a fan of buying barely used equipment after spring training camp in Florida where you get $40k speakers for $15k that have not really even been used.

And having an open mind with several chocies that work for you .

i bought Bowers 800s, essentially new, for about 1/3 retail this way.

Happens every season.

Wilson Sabrina X , come to mind $20k

B&W 803 mk4 around $20 k 

MBL 120 monitors around $22k with stands.

MBL 126 Omni directional monitors $16500 with stands 

for 1/2 that the Perlisten R7 towers $10k

open baffle Spatial audio Labs $10 k 

Lot of great choices......here are few brands I enjoy:

Wilson

Kharma

Sonus Faber 

Couple of add on:

Make sure that your amp and the speakers are a great match and play well together.  For example, Audio Research and Wilson, McIntosh and Sonus Faber, etc.  Do demo your amp brand with your speaker options, it matters.  Lastly, save $ for some nice speaker cables.  For example, Wilson Audio uses Transparent cables in their speakers.  Also, Transparent will bias your cables to match your speaker and amp.  

Good Luck and tell us what you decide to do!!

Fritz. Von Lange, small, deep bass and awesome soundstage 

revel 

magico

yg summit 

I recently acquired a pair of Marten Parker Duos and matching stands for about that much, and I am extremely happy with them. I auditioned them at a dealer along with speakers from YG and Dynaudio, and the Marten sound appealed to me more for rock music, which is mostly what I listen to; they rock out even at lower volumes; I've got a 200 wpc SS amp, but I'd think they'd do perfectly well with 125 wpc.