Are you interested in good musical qualities or good sound qualities??
I've had expensive speakers ($8800 Cremona's) and now have $1200 speakers (Magnepan MG12's).
If you are going to spend a lot (like more than $2500) you'd better have the really solid (and dead sounding) walls of a great listening room to go with them or you will still have crappy midrange and treble. I've had a pair of Proac D15's that were beautiful sounding in a high-end apartment but sounded awful in a house I later bought (until I covered all the walls with persian rugs to shut them the heck up).
You can get by just fine with el cheapo MG12's or mini monitors if you have real high end source and amplification components though. It's all about the music, not the sound. Speakers (IMO) don't seem to be as much about the music than they are about the sound. One of the best systems I've ever had was a pair of $875 minimonitors (linn tukans) but they had a $2500 source (LP12) and $7000 preamp and power amp (Kairn/Klout) in front of them.
I've had expensive speakers ($8800 Cremona's) and now have $1200 speakers (Magnepan MG12's).
If you are going to spend a lot (like more than $2500) you'd better have the really solid (and dead sounding) walls of a great listening room to go with them or you will still have crappy midrange and treble. I've had a pair of Proac D15's that were beautiful sounding in a high-end apartment but sounded awful in a house I later bought (until I covered all the walls with persian rugs to shut them the heck up).
You can get by just fine with el cheapo MG12's or mini monitors if you have real high end source and amplification components though. It's all about the music, not the sound. Speakers (IMO) don't seem to be as much about the music than they are about the sound. One of the best systems I've ever had was a pair of $875 minimonitors (linn tukans) but they had a $2500 source (LP12) and $7000 preamp and power amp (Kairn/Klout) in front of them.