I know everyone has their favorites... My many years of experience in the audio addiction biz (now currently in partial remission) tells me that this is a very multi-factored question...
Unknown room size and acoustic properties, unknown musical listening preferences and unknown associated equipment...
Very hard to be accurate in recommending anything with skill while all those parameters are missing...
What would I buy for my own system for this $10-13K money? I like Maggies, B&W's and my current favorites, Sonus Faber Olympica III's...
My wife even loves the Oly's for their stylish visual qualities! A win/win for me... I found on the sales floor that women tend to judge speakers by looks 1st... then... they have to sound amazing too!
All of the above speakers need to have several feet of "air" around them to image and develop clean frequency responses properly and it goes without saying that everything in the signal and power path matters too.
Unknown room size and acoustic properties, unknown musical listening preferences and unknown associated equipment...
Very hard to be accurate in recommending anything with skill while all those parameters are missing...
What would I buy for my own system for this $10-13K money? I like Maggies, B&W's and my current favorites, Sonus Faber Olympica III's...
My wife even loves the Oly's for their stylish visual qualities! A win/win for me... I found on the sales floor that women tend to judge speakers by looks 1st... then... they have to sound amazing too!
All of the above speakers need to have several feet of "air" around them to image and develop clean frequency responses properly and it goes without saying that everything in the signal and power path matters too.