Best speaker that you dont need a sub under 1.5k

Forget it! I've never seen(heard) a speaker less than 10,000.00 that truly reproduced at a flat wide freq. response of say 30hz-25khz. Get a speaker that does from 38-40hz in the lows and up to 25Khz in the highs real well and keep your sub for that last little bit of bottom info.

I have a custom built hi-eff ribbon system with 12in fostex woofers 28hz-35khz $1500 shipping inc!!

Really starting to beat the dead horse here, but go with NHT. I only have the 2.5's, and even they have incredible bass. I can only imagine that something closer to $1,500 in the NHT line like the 3.3's would vibrate most of the hair off of your body.

Philefreak,

I have to agree! Nothing below $10 K that I can think of that does this with a modest degree of accuracy at decent SPL levels. It depends what you want....many $1.5 K speakers produce these frequencies but to do so well is another matter altogether. I am of the camp that I'd rather do without that bottom octave than mess up the rest of the bass response with distortion.

Vandersteen 2Ce sigs. Hands down.