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Speaker suggestions at around $30k

What speakers would you recommend I listen to? To be driven by a high power solid state amp in a small to medium, well damped room. Around $30k price range. Preferences in order are:
1. Tremendous detail
2. Large open 3D soundstage
3. Clean, lively, and exciting
4. Vocals with great realism and emotional content
4. Extended highs (slight brightness to suit my room)
5. Moderate, controlled mid and deep bass
etc.. etc.. :)
Your recommendations and reasons please!
mike60
geek101
284 posts
 
Did you try out Vandersteen Quatro or 5A ?. I auditioned the lower end Vandersteen speakers and they are really great speakers for the price. Great soundstage, separation of instruments and control over the range. 3a Signature is a wonderful speaker not looks wise but it has no match for its price. Atleast to me that is.

Good luck.
ackman00
67 posts
 
If I had $30k to spend on speakers I would try to listen to the following (in no particular order):

1. Aerial 20T V2
2. Focal Scala Utopia
3. Wilson Sasha
4. Tidal Piano Diacera
5. Rockport Avior
6. Marten Designs (they have a model that goes for $30k)
7. Sony AR-1
8. The TAD that's been mentioned a few times

Good luck. Keep us posted on your search.
robertbrown
151 posts
 
Before you invest $30k in speaker make sure you have a good
DAC
MSB TECH DAC IV
then
. Tremendous detail
2. Large open 3D soundstage
3. Clean, lively, and exciting
4. Vocals with great realism and emotional content
4. Extended highs (slight brightness to suit my room)
5. Moderate, controlled mid and deep bass
etc.. etc.. :)
Your recommendations and reasons please: Totem Shamans
you can hear the echo from the recording studio
bigkidz
3,392 posts
 
Good suggestions but what you really need is a fantastic preamp like a direct heated triode that is transformer coupled first, then you can build a nice system around it. Other preamps using caps cannot provide you with the detail, soundstage, speed, dynamics and realism that transformer cooupled preamps provide, the cap gets in the way of the sound.

Happy Listening.
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hr1
125 posts
 
Wilson Sasha.
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