Average Price Spent for Speakers

Magnepan offers the best values in speakers.
For beginnings, the LRS at $650 per pair.
If you can afford it, the 1.7i's for $2,100 per pair. 
If you can afford more, the 3.7i's for roughly $6,000 per pair.
They do require a lot of power.so you'll need an amp with at least 
150 watts per channel.  

My situation is a little unique I suppose.
I had a pair of $2500 Infinity speakers about ten years ago, when I happened to meet a really gifted speaker designer in Australia.

A decade later, while working for Lenehan Audio I spent well over USD$5k on the components to build my own pair of speakers. According to Mike Lenehan, he would have to sell the speakers I built for at least USD$12k
to make even a meager profit. They aren't strictly DIY, however, I did actually build them myself from component level. While I was building my speakers I took photos, which I have shared in my system page. I truly enjoy seeing other's system pages, regardless of cost, it's interesting and educational.

With my wife's approval I purchased myself a USD$12k power amplifier (I purchased it cheaper, used) which is about the same cost of the speakers.

The rest of my gear, the stands, music source, DAC, interconnects, Puritan power conditioner are all under the USD$12k total.

**Note: Lenehan Audio fine tune all of their speakers with a tuning bay on the back of the speakers, so that the impedance curve, the frequency response and the anti-phase measurements are almost completely matching throughout the frequency sweep in final tuning - I did not do this, Mike Lenehan did it for me.

$600 Klipsch RP-600M-PB
$1.5k KEF LS50
$25k Magico A5

Caveat:
I’m not your typical audiophile who upgrades over a long period, I’m working on my bucket list first audiophile analog/digital system hoping to land somewhere mid-fi (for lack of a better word).

My strategy was to find a speaker sound I love, then try to duplicate the sound as cheaply as possible while minimally sacrificing sound quality. After listening to many speakers via shops and shows, Magico and YG seemed to rather consistently sound great to me. I figured if I heard something I liked through the speakers, I should be able to closely reproduce the sound quality through these same speakers at home as long as I support it with the proper components and room treatments.

Normally, Magico and YG speakers were out of my budget, but in 2019 Magico introduced the $12k A3 and recently the $25k A5. The A3 sounded lightweight for my tastes.  After reading many positive reviews, I am purchasing the Magico A5 which I believe is a bargain that sonically punches significantly above it’s price point- it surpasses the S3 and competes with the S5.

The first 2 speakers, Klipsch RP-600M-PB and the KEF LS50, were purchased to satisfy my curiosity itch because these speakers garnered great reviews at their price points.  

4K used is my budget. Have 2 systems. That 8k

Before the Covid lockdown my speaker budget was under about $1000 used.  Then because I had more time at home than usual, with more free time than usual, I started buying, listening for a while, then reselling various gear.  I was able to try a pretty wide variety that way with very little extra budget.  

When I found a great deal I'd buy, and gradually worked my way up to spending $3,400 on a pair of Tekton Double Impact SE's.  As much as I love music, that was a large outlay, but I knew I could resell them if I didn't like them.  Loved the DI's in many ways but had the itch to try other's and ended up selling them.

IMHO it's almost a waste of time to listen to speakers anywhere but your own space.  I've spent hours and hours listening at various shops over the years and there's no frame of reference to that approach.  My family room is far from ideal acoustically, but it's what my ears know.  I've gone through a pretty wide variety of speakers, amps, preamps, and other gear as well, and in my space I feel I can assess the sonic differences pretty easily.  

I currently have a set of Zu Druid MK4/08's that I bought with the intention of upgrading the drivers, and for the music I enjoy, they sound fantastic!  After the upgraded drivers I will be in about $3,500.  Two years ago that would have seemed crazy.  Today it seems like a serious bargain.