What can come after Apogee Divas ?

There's still a lot of Apogee's in good condition floating around, just need to keep an eye on it. There is a Apogee forum somewhere, maybe someone can provide the link, that talked about where to get parts, I think from Australia.
The other speakers to look at, didn't see it on your list is the Magnepan 3.6 and 20.1. Also check the Gallo 3.1, much more dynamic then the Maggie 3.6 and very holographic, although image height can't beat the large panels, don't let the low price fool you. Good luck.

Apogees are a very tough act to follow, as obviously you appreciate.

Well since I'm a SoundLab dealer, my suggestion will be pretty predictable. I do count a few former Apogee owners among my customers.

Depending on the layout of your room, it's possible that the relatively new Majestic might better serve you, or its shorter counterpart the M-1PX. These models have a narrower pattern than the U-1/M-1/A-1, which increases efficiency (by about 6 dB) but reduces sweet spot width. If your room is (relatively speaking) long and narrow the new geometry would work well, but if your room is close to squarish then the older, wider pattern geometry would probably make more sense. If you can use the new higher-efficiency, narrow (45-degree instead of 90-degree) pattern SoundLabs, that would be my suggestion for a succesor to the Divas in a home theater system.

Now I'm not saying they'll outperform the Wilsons or Wegg3s at the things those systems do well, but staying within the realm of what the Apogees do well the SoundLabs are worthy contenders.

If you have any questions give me a holler. Don't worry, I'm not a pushy rah-rah salesman type.

Best of luck to you in your quest - those are tough shoes to fill!

Duke LeJeune
AudioKinesis

Go to www.apogeespeakers.com. This site contains info about all Apogee speakers. It also contains a ling to the APogee users group, which contains a wealth of information on Apogees. There are several sources of replacement ribbons. One vendor, Graz of Australia, is also making a new line of ribbon speakers based on Apogee designs taken to the limit.

Your Divas still have plenty of support.

You can repair yourself or have the work done for you if you would like to keep them.

Info. and repair link:

http://apogeespeakers.com/

Also, as mentioned above....the new Classic built by Graz is an option if you would like to by new. Info. on the Classic can be found at the above link, along with a link to the Apogee forum.

Dave

There are some alternatives, but you might regret selling them.
For example, how often a pair of Scintillas come up here.
When they do, watch how fast they dissapear, usually less than a day and 50 views or so.
I'm not downing other speakers, but Apogees are very special, really wish the company would make a come back.