Best $10-15K bookshelf speaker?

Joseph Audio Pulsar 2.  

Interesting fact that Yamaha was the godfather of beryllium tooling, driver dev/fab way back in the early 70s, but, apparently they are not "high end" enough for the ’elusive’ audiophile. All these "high end" names have been leeching with it since then, 50 years later (innovation? no such thing from "high end", except putting a "high end" finish on a box). Could "high end" touch the level of engineering that went into the ns5000? never...

I'm curious now why the 3000 isn’t directly sold in the US...while, the big 5000 is.

If I were to get another bookshelf it would be the Yamaha NS3000. I own the NS5000 "bookshelf" and the very detailed drivers on that are preferred over beryllium. Only issue is that if you are in the USA you need to buy from Canada.

NS-3000 – Custom Home Automation Solution, Entertainment Systems (price is $CAN)

Yamaha NS-5000 in my main system presently. NS-3000 is a bit of a problem as I am in the U.S. Toxic expensive beryllium is an evil I was planning to endure. Suppose we could take a road trip up to BC. Maybe not with the tariffs. 

Best … ? have no idea…for me that would mean an impossible trial of ownership and long term listening and the answer would highly depend on taste, room and ancillary equipment… and expectations on SPL..

For the last 4 months or so my Winter system has included the TAD ME-1 w factory stands. You can see it as well as my reference system in the virtual system pages.

The TAD are lovely as are many of the speakers i have heard mentioned above by others. I do use a JL sub w them and my room volume is 5K cubic ft. Obviously system synergy can ruin / tame / optimize just about any speaker.

Finally, without writing a long gushing biased by ownership review…i am impressed enough to seek out more TAD products to audition, add to my systems…including possibly replacing my reference speakers..

Have fun, enjoy the music and the journey

Jim

I have a ns5000 too. Yamaha has well moved on from beryllium. All their current audiophile speakers are zylon (their non-toxic in-house developed stuff). Beryllium lovers may have to go to other "high end" names for a healthy whiff of Beryllium.

Yamaha NS-5000 in my main system presently. NS-3000 is a bit of a problem as I am in the U.S. Toxic expensive beryllium is an evil I was planning to endure. Suppose we could take a road trip up to BC. Maybe not with the tariffs.