$15,000 Floor-Standing Speaker Selection and Advice

ATC SCM 50 Passive or for a bit more ATC SCM 100 Passive

Your amp should be fine.

legacy focus 

why?

96db efficient 

plays loud 

can handle a lot of power

great clarity while still being warm

state of the Art custom made heil AMT tweeter and midrange

very deep bass 22hz 

made in America

attractive real wood cabinets

upgrades possible in terms of adding advanced room correction via legacy wavelet processor.

dave and Troy

Audio Intellect NJ

Legacy dealers

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$15,000 Floor-Standing Speaker Selection and Advice

JBL 4367 see here. 

Mike

@steve59 WOW those models are 50k+ range. If win the lottery I would defiantly look into those models. As title states I am looking for new but I would consider high value old model speakers if they were 10-15 percent the original cost otherwise its better to buying brand new current model. Tah.

You should also look at Proac and consider a set of used Kef Blades

Is it fair to assume that since you’re posting on this site that you’re shopping used? That opens up most all the speakers on the market in the world most of us live.

Dynaudio Confidence 50 would be added to my list and even the C60 that had too much bass for most rooms could be a great match for your room.

Usher BE20DMD

Paradigm Persona 9h 

Meridian dsp8000se

KEF Blade (my current speakers)

Legacy Aeris

 Klipsch Lascalas

Focal Sopra 3

I used a similar price point when shopping for my upgrade speakers and I tries a few on the list above, some had too much bass for my room 3400 cu/ft while some just didn’t sound right with my source. The Salon 2’s sounded really lean because my integrated didn’t drive them full range. 

The gent I bought a pair of Salon 1’s from had a huge open room with walls of windows and not enough window treatments and last I heard he still struggles with good sound in his room 10 years later. I could have started a business just buying and reselling his used speakers from him if I was a salesman.

Eventually you’ll have to put your faith in 1 of the speakers and build a complimentary system around them because the odds of getting lucky and dropping something in that sounds great from scratch are slim.

Have fun with it and try to get a demo of the DALI Epikore 11, might be special if you can find a second hand pair.

@larryi Thank you sire for your kindly response.

Yes I will be placing speakers 100cm away from walls, toed into centre.

Looks are important to me. I like the big bulky looking speakers with multiple driver arrangement. Some coaxial speakers are indeed very good sounding but again I prefer multiple driver look.

Not really keen on panel speakers "Maggies" as they look odd and I don't see how they make huge sound using electrostatic panels.

Looks are very important and I don't like the look of open baffle either. Boxed shape bulky presence is best.

Tah.

@winoguy17 Thank you sire for the response.

Amp I will be using for now are the Parasound A21+ model. This amp is capable of 1000 Wrms into 8 ohm mono if needed but I will be using it as stereo mode.

Tah.

It would help to know where the speakers will, or can be placed, other speakers you have heard and liked, or not liked, whether looks are important (and if so, what examples have you seen and liked--in other words, any more specific details.

If you are not that well versed on speaker types and models, it would be quite useful to attend any convenient regional audio show.  These days, this is the only way to hear a wide range of types and choices.  If you have not heard much more than conventional, dynamic driver floorstanding speakers, you should hear alternatives, such as dipole panel speakers (e.g., Magnepan planar magnetic speakers), open baffle dipole speakers (e.g., PureAudioProject speakers, horn-based systems (e.g., Volti Audio), single fullrange single driver systems (e.g., Charney Audio), coaxial driver systems ((e.g., Tannoy and Fyne), etc.  Some of my favorite commercial speakers are from these less conventional designs (these include PureAudioProject Quintet), Charney Audio Companion speakers).

If you can make it to the Washington D.C. suburbs, you should check out Deja Vu Audio for their custom-made horn-based systems.  Most of them use vintage midrange horns and compression drivers and are outside of your price range, but, they have recently begun to build models using entirely modern drivers that are within your budget and sound shockingly alive, vivid, and rich sounding in ways most conventional speakers do not sound (similar to Volti speakers, but in my opinion, better sounding). 

I heard a lot of speakers at AXPONA this year, and there were a lot that I liked, but very few made my list of brands I could live with. FWIW, Perlisten S5t’s made the short list.  

What amp are you going to use ?

Take a look at Legacy Speakers, they can handle a large room.

@kofibaffour WOW the subwoofer is powerful, I have SpeakerCraft zteqi-12, got at half price discount lol. 

All of them you’d need. a subwoofer to supplement them as they’re not true 20Hz to 20kHz

And of all the speakers I recommend the Perlisten. Their directivity is the more controlled of the lot and that makes for easier coupling with your room as that is the most important step in your setup. Room/speaker coupling @hifiworld2024 

Add this subwoofer and you're good to go - https://www.powersoundaudio.com/collections/subwoofers/products/s21-ipal-m-new

Get without the Anti Model EQ