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Best used floorstanding / full range around $1000

I have a dilemma, or two:
First, which has a better value, a pair of speaker monitors with good stands, or floorstanders of a similar price? And, to extend on that, what are some recommended floorstanders around $1000 *USED*?

Now, I realize these questions have been asked a million times, and the answers are indeed subjective. However, I looked and can't find anything pertaining to this price range. I am looking for your opinion, so please if you have to reply with "listen to them yourself", don't bother. If you have something interesting to say, thanks in advance!

Here's some details on what I have right now:
I have a pair of Monitor Audio GR10's, and looking to buy speaker stands in the range of $150-300; something sturdy and stylish, but not overly expensive. I'm looking along the lines of Sanus steel series and if I could find it, some old Osiris or Target stands. Then it hit me. Instead of nice stands, perhaps it would make more sense to invest in an extra midbass driver, in other words a floorstander? I bought the GR10 here on Audiogon for about $700, and I have seen GR20's go for as low as $1100 on here and on Ebay. What are my other options? There has to be some good value used floorstanders for $1000 used, more or less (maybe $2500-3000, new, old model, etc.). Those of you who think I should just go for the stands, please state your reasons, too.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
rakuennow
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knownothing
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I was going to mention two of Sonicbeauty's choices, the two Quads and the Polk LS 15. Love all three of these.

I will contrast their faint praise of Totems by suggesting a used pair of Staffs as another brilliant budget tower and available used in your price range. Totem Arros come in at even less used, and while a bit light in the bottom end, they image better than most monitors, or pretty much any other speaker I have ever heard, period. And their slim profile takes up less floor space than most speaker stands.

I really like the B&W CM7's too, but I am not sure any of them are old enough yet to be showing up on the market in the $1000 range.

Finally, I have heard Dynaudio Audience 72's make beautiful music with relatively modest NAD separates. Not sure but you might be able to find a pair of these online for around a grand.
hanaleimike
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Hi, I was in the same situation as you, and I went with the Epos m22's. I think I paid about 1100.00 for them here. I have not heard a lot of speakers as it is near impossible to audition gear on the north shore of Kauai, without ridiculous shipping costs. I had the m12.2's before. The m22's have a similar sound with much deeper bass. I like them, beautiful midrange, but like I said, I don't have much to compare them to.
jaybo
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go to mayaudio.com and pick up a pair of castle harlechs for 1050. yep, classic british loudspeakers, heirloom build, and sound that pretty much competes with anything around 5k. even when they were sold at their last retail of 2700 they were a steal. all new, and lots of beautiful flavors too.
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dbphd
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Rakuennow,

The newer amps may sound better, but either the Proceed Amp 2 or 3 sound very good to me driving my KEF Reference 104/2s. I use a Proceed PAV/PDSD pre/pro, a 2 chassis AVP if you will, although the AVP was said not to be as good. For HT, I invoke a pair of KEF Reference 102/2s and a 200C. Cross over to a Velodyne HGS-15 is at 80 Hz. Sources are a Sony 9000ES for CD and SACD, a PlayStation 3-80 for DVD, and a DirectTV HD-DVR. The result is a very satisfying system for music, film, or TV.

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