A list of efficient speakers at ~$5K a pair.

If you give it a try, @grislybutter , you will never want to listen to your Sims gear any other way.

I think you're overcomplicated this process. Listen to the music and choose what sounds right "to you". I personally own Tekton Moab's.

@jijoh123 , are those going for 5k a pair?

I went to the link that @elliottbnewcombjr provided for the Volti Razz and it sounds like they do it all.  Big room or small room and high sensitivity and $5500 if no paint or finish . . . but it also sounds like once you've got them you've got them and if you don't like them you've still got them?

@grislybutter and  ​​​​@aricaudio I listen with the lights turned off and my eyes closed and my listening room isn't used for anything else, so that wouldn't bother me in the least.  If they sounded great that is all it would take to make me happy.

That would make for an interesti9ng visual, @grislybutter .

But seriously, on my budget, if I could buy a speaker that out performed it's price tag and save a significant amount of money because the manufacturer had put everything into performance and nothing into aesthetics, I'd  be all about that. But I do understand how everyone doesn't (literally)  see it that way.  

After I read the Volti Razz posts and went to their site, I love the idea of being able to buy a great performing speaker and saving  2k by selecting the option of NOT having it painted or finished.  

If they sound great, I don't think the appearance is objectionable.  

Function over form any day.  +1 @decooney .

@grislybutter , I am giving your idea some deep thought.  Very DEEP.