Best Holographic Speakers ~$7k per pair

Of the speakers you suggested, the Ascends will be best because they employ higher quality drivers in a small and braced cabinet. Their drivers are far better quality than you’ll find in most <$6K/pair speakers, aside from DIY. Otherwise, consider a speaker like the SB Acoustics Rinjani Textreme kit, which will blow most of the aforementioned suggestions out of the water. 

Keep in mind that most commercially available $5K/pair speakers are equipped with tweeters and woofers that would retail for somewhere between $50 and $100 each if they were sold piecemeal by Seas, SB or Scanspeak. Typically, less than 25% of the street price is what went into building those $5K speakers. And don’t be fooled by those who claim their in-house built drivers are superior. They are often inferior to off-shelf drivers if anything. 

Depends...if you get something like a Andrew Jones Mofi 888 for 5k,  you may get some drivers that are superior to off-shelf anything...and you won’t be able to make them for $50 or $100 if you have to do the r&d from scratch.

 I am highly doubtful that the drivers in any MoFi speaker are “superior to off-shelf anything.” Have you ever built a speaker with Satori drivers, especially the Textreme? They are built to an entirely different quality level than what you’ll pull out of any $5K non-factory-direct speaker like a MoFi, Wharfedale or Monitor Audio etc.

I don’t doubt that the 888s compete well against other $5K commercial options, if not wholly surpassing many of them, but hard to believe they will compete with >$12K speakers the way a Helios or Rinjani kit will. DIY really does yield twice the performance for about half the money IME. In other words, $3K worth of parts/materials + your labor can get you speakers that compete all day with $12K/pair commercial stuff. One of those truths the industry hates, but people are in the bizz to make money and labor is expensive. For many, the labor investment is not worth the savings, thus, I don’t fault anyone for choosing a complete product with a warranty over the DIY route, but the latter is the best bang-for-buck by far.