Own many mid-game speakers or a few end-game speakers.


After I got hooked into this hobby I started to have a small collection of speakers each in the $5k-$10k ranges that have various tonal quality and unique characters from each other. It doesn’t feel one speaker is absolutely better than another and they all have their own personalities, and I quite enjoy these diversity for different type of music I listen to (or hearing the same music expressed very differently which is always fun) and I’m always tempted to add more, for example, I recently get excited about Klipsch and want to try their horns which I do not have had any experience of.

But, these things quickly add up and could become endless pursuit, especially consider speakers differ not just in response curves but also in dynamic, decay, sound stage and details that are all hard to emulate with software. I’m trying to limit the max spending I have on speakers. I’m wondering what’s the perspective of upgrading v.s. buying into more diversity in this game. A few questions I have for you is, say you have $60k in budget on speakers new/used and you have infinite rooms (no amp/source), how would you allocate it (from buying 5000 Homepod Minis to one B&W nautilus) and why?
bwang29

The floor standers of "Burmester 961" have all been tweaked.. They do play along and show the difference/improvement every time my front-end improves, e.g. amp bias readjustment, cable differences, x-over Mundorf bypass caps, pair selected new carbon AUDAX 512" midrange drivers for my game..., and this since their 2002 purchase!

JBL M2 Active Speakers with the JBL room correction equalizer and crown amps that are made for them 

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a classic JBL Paragon that has been restored and upgraded to pristine condition:

 

 

 

One of my favorite speakers is made by a company called hORNS. These speakers are built in Poland and they are called Symphonies.

@dillonlennon 

 

Nice of you to stop by, join and post and endorsement about an obscure speaker brand. DO you have any affiliation? What is the rest of your system?