You ca pay $25K for new $25K speakers or you can pay maybe $10-12K for used speakers of the same model.
Personally, I think that the best result is to pay $25K for some used $50K speakers.....
$25k speakers, are we there yet?
ASR members walk away. For the rest of us.
These big expensive speakers really do need the stars to align for us to ever reach their potential so when my last speakers didn't do well with the source I had instead of upgrading the source I swapped speakers. What do you need to hear/see/know about your speakers to take the next step and build a 20 year system around them?