High Efficiency Speakers Your top 3 or more

one i've never heard but would like to is the Reference 3A Grand Veena. they seem to be at a nice price point as well.

Thanks Grant, and thanks for the link to the paper, which as it happens I had seen some time ago. As I indicated in my post yesterday, that appears above and was addressed to Ladavid, my experience has been that well recorded, minimally compressed symphonic music tends to have brief peaks in the area of 100 to 105 db at the listening position, which seems nicely consistent with both Lou's comments and with the 80 watt/channel capability of my amp.

Best regards,
-- Al

Over 10k is lots of cash for cheap fostex midrange even if fancy cones coated.