Opinions wanted: 10-30K Speakers for Jazz/Folk

MC-give it up, we all know you have no system to talk about and you have no ears to actually hear a good system. There are many good brands of speakers in your price range but some of them will require good quality amps to get the best sound out of them. Some quality speakers to check out are from: Revel Salon2 or Studio2, Wilson, Usher be-10 or be-20’s, Raidho, and others. Or you can go the MC route, buy something you never heard for the cheap and claim it’s better than $1M systems, when he hasn’t actually heard these more expensive systems

I am not sure where you are located but I suggest you look at the Rockport Atria II. I picked up a pair after owning magicos and could not be happier. 

Thank you to everyone, luckily I am able to hear most of these brands as I am not too far from Boston. 

Can I ask those of you who have heard audio note speakers, how would you describe their sound and what other speaker company might you liken it to? I will be listening to those soon... hopefully!

@willgolf I got a kick out of the viking website. Checking out what the have to say critics, seeing mostly good feedback. Unsure about how horns effect sound, will read up.

@bassdude good call on apoxna, are there many 20k speakers there? All the pics I see are of insane $$$ gear. Insane that 20k is not insane in this world!

@p05129 who is MC and which speakers are you referring to?

@nhb1 One thing I did not read was your budget for the rest of your system.

lots of good ground covered here already... scott at verdant has made excellent contributions, esp. good with what amps drive what speakers well

i only have a few points to add...

- at this level of cost for speakers, all recommended ones are going to be excellent but they will each present the music in their special way, and will appeal to listeners seeking particular strengths -- and there are many many of them out there worth consideration

- given this, it would helpful if the op would share what speakers/systems he has owned or heard and particularly enjoyed, or that he was told were ’great systems’ that he was underwhelmed by

- also, if there are some other pieces of gear (tt, cartridge, dac etc etc) that op would like to run in this new system of amps/speakers, that would be good to factor in

more input of this sort would help narrow the field among a multitude of qualified and legit contenders