Best New or Used Speakers


Willing to spend between 1000-2000 new or used. Former magnepan owner, but looking for more room friendly less finnicky speaker to place with nice sweet spot. Perhaps even a more forgiving top end and better bass. Use SS high power equip and love all music venues. Love complex orchestral to Creed... med room that can be a bit bright and difficult... but I dont want the room rule out a choice for a great speaker in my price range. Can a maggie owner find true happiness outside of a ribbon ?? Thoughts? Recommendations?
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I love Maggies and I'm a current owner.The Eminent Technology LFT-VIIIa hybrid speakers are worth looking at.I've spent hours listening to these speakers.
They are well made and with a high power SS amplifier they really open up.I hooked my Carver ZR1600 800 wpc amplifier to these speakers. They will truly light up the room with authority, when feed enough power.They are more dynamic than the maggies but still give you that uncoloured midrange.The pictures on the site don't do the speakers justice. The LFTs look much better in person. They come with a 3 position adjustment for the tweeter.This gives you the option to adjust the tweeter to your needs.They play all sorts of music very well.The pair I listen too at a friend's home are totally non fatiguing.He unloaded a pair of $6500 box speakers after turning these on. These are true sleepers in the audiophile world. I have no affiliation with the company.They've been around more than 20 yrs but are still unknown to a lot of audiophiles.Bruce Thigpen(designer and owner) is a great guy and will sometimes answer the phone when you call the company.His ribbon-driver patents have been licensed for manufacturing by Level 9 Sound Designs, in Canada. That company supplies transducers for Monsoon speakers, as well as modified ribbons to VMPS audio.

Good Luck!