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Speakers under $50k that rival $200k+ speakers?

Curious if there are any used or new (less likely) speakers out there that rival flagship speakers like Focal Grande Utopia, Rockport Lyra, Marten Coltrane Supreme 2, Magico M6, Raidho TD 4.2 or D4.8 etc?

I'll throw out a contender. If you look on ebay and the used market you can sometimes find a Von Schwekert VR 10 for around $18k CAD and from what I heard it can rival many TOTL speakers like the Grande Utopia. Do you guys have any thoughts?
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unreceivedogma
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geoffkait, in this forum you are correct.

I’ve recently moved, and new friends and new guests who are not audio geeks come over and the first thing they see are the damn speakers and they go wtf because they are all sound surfing on buds these days... so they have not heard the wisecrack and it has become a reflex of late. My bad.
josh358
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Agree with the Magnepan 30.7. But as others say, it depends on what your priorities are. The Maggies excel on acoustical music, they have a spooky realism to them. Even my old Tympani IVa's can be jaw-droppingly realistic (talk about bargains -- maybe $3000 used), and the 30.7's better them in every respect. 
arty_vandelay
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For a full range speaker it's difficult to go past B&W 800D3. 
shoff
133 posts
 
Probably lots of speakers would fill the bill but one I'm sure of is a used pair of Rockport Cygnus.  
gochurchgo
921 posts
 
The only speakers on those price ranges I’ve heard were Wilsons. Not impressed.

That said if I had $50k speakers there’d be an investigation. Or $10k for that matter.
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