$15,000 Floor-Standing Speaker Selection and Advice

@hifiworld2024 totally agree with your take on Parasound amps, great performance for the price. John Curl is a genius

…Aaah large stand-mount, they are nice.

There’s also Revival Audio Atalante 7 Evos….

Standmounts- in addition to my floorstanders, in my curiosity I’m very tempted to try standmounts like high value n sonics Fritz, Revival Audio, or maybe a Harbeth+ Hegel combo. The MBL 126 gives a large taste of it’s more expensive siblings.

Borresen X6

I have owned many speakers. The Borresens have taught me that transient response matters more than any linearity or dispersion measurement. Musicality lives in the transient “speed” of the drivers. 
 

The aforementioned Yamaha NS-5000s are also very good and have excellent drivers. 

vienna acoustics klimt the music 😉

Some funny comments about Parasound in here—really highlights the ignorance that pervades these forums.

I have had the original A21, A21+ and JC5. All three can power any speaker to deafening volume without breaking a sweat. The 21s can output close to a kilowatt into a 2 ohm load. 

I’ve also compared these to more boutique amps from the likes of Pass, Bel Canto, Luxman, and Coda. The Parasounds are not remotely out of place in their company. In fact, I prefer my original A21 to the Coda No.8 which retails for twice the money. The A21 is not perfect, but short of a $20K Boulder, I haven’t encountered an amp that is wholly better. 

IME, all the Parasounds sacrifice some resolution in the top octaves relative to others, but they trade that for an effortlessness and bottom end control that is lacking in many, if not most, competitors. So like most things in audio below middle-five-figures, it’s a matter of tradeoffs.

@helomech Beautifully said!

I'm not agreeing with you because I'm a new owner of Parasound amp I'm agreeing with you because someone sees the light through all the BS. Well said sire!

If Parasound were a bad product then they would be in business and people would not buy!