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?
smodtactical
@smodtactical  Classic Audio Loudspeakers (CARs) are made in Brighton, MI.  The models T3 and T1 are three-way speakers employing two bass drivers, a midrange horn and compression driver tweeter.
http://classicaudioloudspeakers.com/cgi-bin/index.pl?fs=1&init=1


You can have them field-coil powered, which endows the drivers with the speed to which I referred earlier. The midrange horns employ CAD-optimized throat curves that eliminate common old-school horn artifacts;  the drivers are beryllium domes with Kapton surrounds. This means that the first breakup is at about 35KHz and an extra octave of low frequency bandwidth, so very smooth and detailed across their entire range. They are also 16 ohms so whatever amp is driving them will be lower distortion than it will on lower impedance speakers. This also makes them smoother, since the kind of distortion I'm talking about makes amps sound harsher otherwise. So they are full range (down to 20Hz) and very smooth and detailed; they also image quite well. On top of that they are easy to drive; they pretty well tick all the boxes except they aren't small.
@smodtactical, sorry I just took one of the speakers off your short list under consideration :)  We were probably looking at the same used pair of Nola CGRG.  Good luck on your journey!
@manthik not at all man, I am very happy for you, I am sure they are truly incredible speakers and for that price, amazing... I hope you can write up some impressions
Recently got hold of the Quested v3110 active pro monitors. Not too big monitor in a very heavy package. Gives you a beautiful "organic" full range sound. High spl capacity. End of game for me for a while. So far runs them without any external dsp. Just using the internal settings. Will challenge any speaker out there.