I have purchased SOTA swiss front end which I can't disclose. They are solid state. Got room treated , cables sorted , power supply regulated, a comfy couch and books to read for years.
Now I need a pair of beautiful and lively speakers to get me up and dancing when the track calls for it. A SOTA speaker that is worthy of keeping for years. Room size is 25 sqm/ 269 sqft.
Final contenders: - Zellaton - Stenhiem - Tidal- Marten- Wilson - Borresen
I don't need (you need to listen and decide) suggestions, I can't travel and we got no dealers with demos. So I'll have to rely on users honest opinions about each brand above and are they worthy of the cost.
No electrostatics and no horns please. Appreciate if you know how to get the most benefit at the upper botique level of speakers. Some might look fabulous and sound meh.
go listen to the monitor audio platinum 300 Gen 2 or 500 Gen 2 they're going up against speakers four five times the cost and sounding just as good. the MPD tweeter that they developed is the best tweeter on the market right now goes up to 100,000 clean.Their driver technology is amongst the best on the market. magical just copied their sandwich driver technology.
A shame you won't consider ESLs. Sound Labs make classical music sparkle. For 70K you could get 945s and 4 subwoofers. IMHO no dynamic speaker can compete.
naturally, you'll get 100 answers. mine would be the following. YOU DON'T need to spend that much to get a fantastic speaker system. I'd buy Revel 228BE's, and one or two high quality subs, JL Audio, REL, SVS, etc. ...... and for under $20k, you have a speaker system that will run with about ANYTHING at $70,000.
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