A friend of mine has a pair of Living Voice speakers, I think maybe older R25's? He got them for a steal price because of some small dings in the cabinets, but they can be had for less than $5K. You'll pry my old ProAc Response 2's out my of cold, dead hands, but I found these to be very similar in having excellent imaging and a vivid midrange. In fact, he bought them to replace his own ProAc Response 2's so he could run single-ended amps. He listens to more contemporary music than I do, and they did very well with that but also classical and jazz. I really enjoyed listening to them for two days, and if I had the money I would even consider replacing my ProAcs.
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@elliottbnewcombjr yeah that is the opposite direction, the Sanders 10E site shows they like to pair them up with a powerhouse 500w-900w Magtec Class AB amplifier.
--------------------------------------------- Other: My local dealer has Soundlabspeakers, and I’ve heard the Majestic 545px 8ohm speakers driven with my same Quicksilver 60-100wpc tube amps and they sound glorious too. Lower efficiency and 8ohms, yet the tube amps do okay with them fwiw. https://www.soundlabspeakers.com/majestic/ Actually he’s had the super large 945 units there and drove them with my same QS Mono 120 tube amps without issue, with the higher 8ohm impedance. I like the size of the shorter 545s with wider front size. Would the OP go for these, who knows ;). Neither of these are "efficient" though, not even close. Not efficient. Tube amp capable, maybe
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The Fritz Carbon 7s is hard to beat with your requirements. A step up would be the Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene but at a cost. Please take a look at these other options with benign load requirements, in that price range: https://nsmt-loudspeakers.com/Performance-Series https://www.pispeakers.com/contents.html Dieter
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