Spatial Audio labs open baffle speakers ,excellent build quality and sonics ,very efficient, and
don’t require a lot of space .
I owned the Spatial M4s, both Turbos and Triode Masters. Great speakers, though I now own and prefer the Maggie .7s. They’re not as detailed and don’t play as low as the Spatials but they disappear better and the imaging is tighter.
Magnepans are some of the very best at what they do well — remove box resonance from the equation. All speakers have trade-offs, no matter the price tag. Speakers in the ~$2K/pair range tend to have major trade-offs. That’s just the way the industry operates. What you sacrifice in a pair of Magnepans for $2K are bass dynamics and resolution, in exchange for an open transparency that rivals or surpasses some $50K speakers.
If Magnepan suddenly decided to use Mundorf or Jantzen caps and Mills resistors in the crossovers, the $2K/pair 1.7s would likely become $3K/pair 1.7s. The same sort of economics apply when you have your car serviced by a dealer. They’re going to charge double or triple what you’d pay for the same part if you were to source it yourself. Not surprisingly, most speakers employing crossover parts of that quality level, that are sold through a traditional dealer model, cost upwards of $5K/pair.
If you want better stands, buy the Mye Stands. If you want better caps, you can buy them from Madisound. Jeesh, you got panel speakers that were hand-built buy American labor for only $2K/pair. Quit the bellyaching and pick up a soldering pen.