At 50 bucks used, the top of the british line Mission, the Cyrus 781+ a passively and actively modified acoustic room by my homemade methods, gives me in my 2 listening position (regular and nearfield) a sound so good that even if an upgrade would give me a better sound, the increase in money invested would be out of scale....
I sold my 4 Tannoy Dual Gold 800 hundred dollars for each pair few years ago, I had pay them 400 dollars in 1975....They were very good but not better than the Mission and too big for my desk....
In my experience the acoustic treatments, the passive one and the generally unacknowledged active one, are the keys to audio experience, not so much the speakers, especially if you play with low price speakers around 1000 dollars new...
I sold my 4 Tannoy Dual Gold 800 hundred dollars for each pair few years ago, I had pay them 400 dollars in 1975....They were very good but not better than the Mission and too big for my desk....
In my experience the acoustic treatments, the passive one and the generally unacknowledged active one, are the keys to audio experience, not so much the speakers, especially if you play with low price speakers around 1000 dollars new...