What speakers for 10k?

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.

Yeah the baby Beethoven's are brand new, I don't think that's the speaker I'll stay with or it might be? but it would be fun to take advantage of the speaker upgrades.

At new, full retail with warranties, $9700 buys you a pair of Magneplanar
3.7i's and a pair of JL E112 powered subwoofers. The new x.7i line of
Magnepans are bargain-basement speakers for life. Add the powered subs
to get all the extension and slam at the bottom end. They blend well with
Maggies. As long as you can place the Maggies 4-5 feet out into the room,
you're golden.

I got a pair of Mag 1.7s a year ago and at my budget, that's as good as it's
going to get for me. I have a pair of small fast subs with them and a year
later still have no urge to upgrade.

Edited to add: My maggies replaced a pair of more expensive dynamic
speakers engineered to quell enclosure resonances--there were no parallel
surfaces and the sidewalls were a continuous curve with a constantly varying
radius. When I put the Maggies in place, it was a revelation at how noisy the
dynamic speakers were by comparison. With the Maggies, all you hear is the
transducers with no boxy coloration or resonances. Dynamic speakers that
get to this level of clarity generally have very elaborate and expensive
enclosures--speakers such as Wilson, Focal, Magico, YG, and premium
Sonus Faber.

This is particularly an area where Magnepans exceed their dynamic
competitors at the same price points.

For dynamic speakers at your price point, based on what I heard from the
discontinued Sonus Faber Cremona M's, I'd seriously consider the
Sonus Faber Olympica II.