Looking for speaker suggestions

@stevea11757  - sorry about that - I looked at the price of the Shaniian Hawk speakers below and made a bit of  an assumption :-) But the Avantgarde are superb sounding speakers

https://www.audiot.co.uk/products/shahinian-hawk-2-speakers-9706.aspx

Another speaker that I love is the Gershman Acoustics GAP828
http://www.gershmanacoustics.com/uploads/gersh_brochure.jpg

I have the baby brother "Sonograms" which are no longer made and a steal at the price price I paid - mine were 40% off MSRP

Both are very neutral and "invisible" with fast dynamics and exceptional clarity and imaging.

The GAP828 is a stunning looker and as far as performance goes - the 828's has a little deeper bass than the sonograms and they can handle more power

The Avant Garde R1 for me was not worth the exrta money i.e. they sounded almost identical to the Sonogram.

It may be a little hard to find Gershman dealers - contact Gershman for a dealer in your area

They generally sell new for less than the MSRP 
Regards - Steve

you really should make a trip to see John Rutan at Audio Connection in Verona, NJ
he carries a lot of brands

Welcome! gpwdr
a fellow Thiel owner here as well.
Happy Listening!

harbeth 40.2 big room or harbeth c7es3 in a medium size room.  

Hello Stevia,

As you are in our neck of the woods we would welcome you to visit the Audio Doctor showrooms, in nearby Jersey City NJ, we have the widest selection of loudspeakers in that price range in the Tri state region.

We have Dali, Kef, Kef Reference, Elac Adante, ATC, Gradient, Paradigm Prestige, Paradigm Persona, Legacy Audio, and Rethem.

It will really come down to what you value and what your ear likes, we have some exceptional performers for the money, they range from the very high resolution sound of the hi tech Paradigm Personas 3F at $10k which are the only loudspeaker under $30k with a pure Beryilium midrange and a pure Beryillium tweeter.

The Paradigm Prestige are awesome and can challenge many $20k and above  loudspeakers, the Legacy Focus and smaller Signature are golden examples of high performance, and very musical loudspeakers,. that are warm yet have good resolution with deep room filling bass, they are also easy to drive and efficient the Legacy speakers use a Heil AMT for the tweeter and midrange so they have excellent treble as well, priced at $7k to $10k

The new Elac Adantes are pretty amazing with the right gear for a $5k price point, the Adantes have a huge soundstage, very deep and tight bass, and a very clean detailed top end, and the Dali Rubicons are magical in balancing resolution with liquidity in a very compact floor stander at $6k a pair.

We even have a demo pair of $20k Dali Epicon 8 that we are selling for $10k due to having too many $25-35k sets of speakers on the floor.

If you like the wide band horn thing we picked up the excellent Rethem Bahaavas a $4,200.00 ful range that has some suprising sound as they do have a good top end and have excellent deep bass due to a built in isobarik subwoofer system, as they are a wide bander they are easy to drive at about 95db efficient.

The Kef R Series and the Pardigm Prestige series are both very good in the $4k to $5k price range.


Here is our showrooom tour of a few years ago, missing is the Legacy loudspeakers, ATC speakers, the Paradigm Persona, Rethem and Elac Adante lines, also missing is the T+A gear, the Innuous Servers,Mytek, and many of the newer products we have brought in over the last few years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NPIn3pEmI4

Please let us know if you would like to come for a private audition.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ