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Suggestions for high efficiency speakers?

I attended the Capital Audiofest and thought the Audio Note room had the best sound to my ears. Another attendee from Florida had a copy of "A Night in Tunisia" and it sounded like you were sitting in Art Blakey's chair with his drums right there in front of you. I want that palpability, that "you are there" sound I think low watt amps and high efficiency speakers deliver better than any other combination.

 

A couple years ago I heard the DeVore 96s at the same show and loved their sound, anyone know of other speakers that give the same sensations?

 

My system is a SOTA Sapphire w Sumiko MMT and Zu-modified Denon 103 into an Art Audio Vinyl One phono pre into a Lamm LL2 Deluxe pre into an Art Audio Jota SET power amp and into Joseph RM25 sigs.

fosolitude
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charles1dad
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@fosolitude,

You have a terrific Jota amplifier (And wonderful SOTA turntable front end) to build around. Your  15K budget allows numerous excellent options. Cube Audio Nenuphar is a terrific recommendation given your sonic presentation objectives. Definitely worth an investigation.

There have been consistent positive comments on forums regarding, Charney Audio speakers, Fyne Audio and Viking Acoustic peakers. The choices mentioned available with Avant-garde are intriguing. The Canadian Coherent Audio speakers are very highly regarded and quite easy to drive. Audio Note which you’ve obviously heard in the full AN room at the show.

You truly do have genuinely excellent choices before you.

Charles

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fosolitude OP
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Thanks everyone for your suggestions this gives me much to work on to try to hear all these speakers. I'm not in a hurry, the Josephs are great speakers, so I can do a thorough job of auditiioning these.

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fosolitude OP
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Forgot to mention I have a Velodyne DD15 sub

larryi
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Given how much you enjoyed the Audio Note room at the Capital Audio Fest, I would suggest, of course, Audio Note speakers, DeVore 93 or 96, Charney Companion , Pure Audio Project, SoundKaos Wave 40, and maybe the Volti Rival.  While I like the Horning mentioned above, it is on the leaner side which is just the opposite of the ultra warm and rich Audio Note and DeVore sound.  Likewise, I would think a Zu speaker would be less to your liking.  But, you never know until you hear it, so by all means find a way to audition as many candidates as you can.

 

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