Battle of the affordables

Well if any of these sounds as good as my Pioneer S-1EX’s with the matching center,  I’ll consider it

I have recently spent some time with a pair of Rogers LS6 two way bookshelf's on stands. I am shocked with their presentation. Sold them after a week, but can't stop thinking about them. Visited my friend, who bought them from me. We put on the remixed PF "Animals", and verified my previous opinion. Only my Maggie 20.7 and Vandersteen 2Ci's could best them... ??? 

It seems as though the crossover's are the problem with all speakers. 2 way is typically the most transparent system. I had a pair of Brentworth 1 way transmission line's with a whizzer cone. It's been 12 years and I still remember them and I know it seems crazy but they shook me loose from an electrostatic fixation that gripped me for almost 10 years.

I'm not missing some other well respected types, not even thinking about the high cost of some of them. Just talking about that, "ah ha" moment that comes out of nowhere every other couple of years. 

I think the best part of this hobby is when you get humbled by a simple approach and realize that it's not about expensive stuff. Synergy, combination, luck!

andy2

Nothing personal and I'm trying to be helpful, but my vote is for none of the speakers you listed; they are all massed produced common speakers. Listen to some of the suggestions here, and do some more homework; there are so many great speakers between $3,000 and $7,000......and none of them are the ones you listed.

Pure Audio Project Duet, (with horn), Revival Atalante, Buchardt Audio E50, Arendal 1528 Monitor 8 or Bookshelf 8, Fritz Audio Carbon 7s, Alta Audio Alyssa, Volti Razz, Rosso Fiorentino Elba 2, Monitor Audio Gold 200 or better yet 300, Dynaudio Focus 30, Fyne Audio 502SP, Revel F228 Be, Yamaha NS2000A, Diptyque DP107, QLN Strandberg C-50, Perlisten R5t,Wharfedale Elysian 2, Sonus Faber Sonetto V G2, MoFi Sourcepoint 888, ProAc DB1 or D2 or D20RS or D30RS which is on sale, 

Those are just off of the top of my head, all are priced between $3,5000 and $7,000 (though you'll have to find some that are on sale, and all are better than the speakers you are considering in my estimation

Let us know how you get along, I'd be interested

None of the above.  I prefer a live and realistic sound.  Tekton Design is my vote for whatever price.  Have heard most of the speakers on your list and they don't have a sense of realism that I like in speakers.  Tekton double impacts 3k and buy a used Pass labs and some decent cabling and shunyata power conditioning