What speakers for 10k?

The Beethoven's are 5 years old, I don't think they are the se version, they do have the spider cone drivers. I'm liking what I'm reading about the Mahler's but not finding any used? these are 15k new I believe?

Jughead, Mahlers are out of production, hence you will not find a new pair. With a little bit of patience you will eventually find a set on Audiogon or other source.

The current Vienna speaker in the same price range as Mahler is the Listz, also to be featured at CES:

System One: [Venetian Towers] Suite 30-129
Vienna Acoustics – Imperial Series – Liszt, $15,000.00/pr

They use technology trickled down from the current VA flagship, called DIe Muzik. Here is the Lizt Imperial page:

http://www.vanaltd.com/imperial-series.html

and

http://www.vanaltd.com/assets/liszt-data-sheet.pdf

And here is my mostly technical discussion of my own pair of DIe Muzik:

http://positive-feedback.com/Issue59/vienna.htm


Regards, G.

I do have a line on some Baby Beethoven's at local stereo store and they will buy my Mozarts from me, and they do offer an upgrade policy. If I keep speakers looking and functioning new with all packing they will give me full value on speaker to upgrade. this might be the route to go, I can trade speakers every 7 or 8 months and learn what I like and don't like about the different va's.

Hi Jughead, the current model of the Baby Grands is called Baby Grand Symphony AEdition... Make sure that if you get a new pair, the vendor does not give you the previous model instead.

Inevitably, a new pair of Beethoven Baby Grands will need to be broken in... They might sound a little boxy and occasionally peaky in the beginning. Breaking might extend to about 1,000 hours. To spead up things, Whenever you are not listening to music, you can feed them white noise from an FM tuner.... Tune the device between station and let interstation hash reach the speakers at low to moderate volume.

G.

MAGICO mini 2 used.