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Looking for a good full range floor stander

Hello all.  Making a good two way system for a 20 x 40x 12 high room budget 12k to 16 k.  Powered by a bryston 14b cubed amp.  Have a surround system with Golden ear ref and surrounds powered by parasound a21 for mains  and Carver cinema grand for surrounds. Like the GEs  The speakers I'm looking for will be for music only lots of jazz (female vocalist a fav), classical, classic rock and roll (70's and up).  I have heard good things about proac k6, Joseph audio, and a few others but am not within 4 hours of audition range.  Real interested in people in the know about the proac or suggestions.  Thanks in advance.
paliden
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twoleftears
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I head the Salk Song3 BeAT and the Encore at CAF, and they did indeed run rings about plenty of more expensive speakers, including an utterly uninspiring pair of Personas.

For that room size, look at what may be Salk's masterpiece to date, the SS 9.5, which is larger but related to both BeAT and Encore.

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audiotroy
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Twoleftears unless subs are used still way too small for the op room also not efficient enough.

The encore 3 is the only Salk that woulp work to cover that much air space.

Legacy, Tekton, Salk encore would really do the job.

Just currious twoleftears was Paradigm using their electronics?
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mijostyn
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audiotroy, to be kind you have no idea what you are talking about and judging by your dialect would not know a good speaker if it hit you over the head. Your explanations of physics and acoustics lack any semblance of reality and the way you describe auditory phenomena suggests you can't hear either. 
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twoleftears
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audiotroy: you appear to be not "au fait" with the latest (and probably greatest) offering from Salk, the SS 9.5, which takes the woofer from the Encore and combines it in a larger cabinet with dual passive radiators.  Salk continues to up his game.  He also uses one of the few listenable beryllium tweeters in some of his models.
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rja
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paliden, Just because audiotroy decided to bad mouth Salk speakers doesn’t mean you shouldn’t check them out. I think he has a list of owners who are willing to audition their Salk speakers. Perhaps there are some near you. I know he has many happy customers.
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