Moving up from B&W CM9

dnanstad,

You might want to check out the Monitor Audio Silver 10. I listened at length to the Silver 8 when looking for new speakers(the Silver 10 was outside my budget). I ended up with B&W 683 S2s.

I really like MA and B&Ws way with music. They both are refined and dynamic. The MA have a touch sweeter mid-range but I love what B&W does with bass and treble.

I have only seen the Sonus Faber Venere 3.0; They are beautiful. And judging by the reviews and owners I'm sure sound great. Good luck with your search.

Cheers,

Scott

If you can stretch it by $500 I find it very hard to believe you will even get in the ballpark of performance of the Tekton Double Impact. Mine are barely broken in but they are so good. I had Golden Ear Triton Ones for about 6 months and found them very good. I think the Tektons are better in every area including bass
which may be hard to believe. This is the only Tekton I have heard, the others are probably very good as well and can be had for less. I took a chance figuring I could eat the shipping and send them back. Threw the boxes out yesterday. 

The Proac Studio 148 ,An exellent match for your Mcintosh I doubt you’ll find a better option in this price level.or used Proac 140 MKII even better if you can find one.

I should have about $2,500 to invest in a set of used speakers.  I get it that the best speaker is the one that I like the best. I'm just looking for some suggestions of what I might want to try to audition. I've been leaning toward Sonus Faber Venere 3.0, but have heard some great things about Tekton recently. thanks!

I am glad that you get it.  So the next step would be an audition as I can't think of two speakers that sound more different than one another than Sonus Fabers and Tektons.

Also, what is it about your CM9'S that you don't like that is prompting the change of a 3 grand pair of speakers new for a $2500 pair used?  If you can tell us what your trying to get away from, this will help in additional speakers to audition.

 

I went from a pair of B&W 703s (older nicer version of the Cm9) to a pair of Thiel 2.4CS and the improvement was staggering. 

what I learned is that the 703s is just a bad speaker, not really good at anything and the Thiels are over achievers and a lot more money needs to be spent to better them. If you don't mind owning a discounted model the thiel 2.4cs is a steal on the used market right now at around $2000ish. They were $6,500 at the end of their cycle.