I am thinking of buying the Avalon Osiris.

Make sure you've got enough equity in your home for the mortgage?

In all seriousness, looking at the pictures of your room, you have great gear already, but how big is the room? The thing that has most impressed me about Avalon speakers (Sirspeedy, if you ever sell those Ascents you've lost your mind--classics in every sense of the word) is their soundstaging ability, and ability to disappear, but they really need to be out a bit into the room to be able to do this at their best. I can't tell how far out from the wall you can bring them, but where you have the SFs would not be far enough, in my view, to get the best out of the Osiris.

Sirspeedy, we have GOT to get you into the NJ Audio Society so you can host a meeting!!!!

Sirspeedy, echoing Gmorris's post, I think your attitude and experience mirror that of many in the club, including myself. And I like to program music meetings as well as equipment, yours would be a system for listening to music.

I still have vivid memories in the past from listening to Mike Hobson's Ascents powered by Rowland electronics in his NYC store--the best soundstaging I'd ever heard from a box speaker at the time, and an overwhelming musical experience. If the Ascents had a few more hertz extension in the bass (I do listen to a lot of organ) and could easily have been lugged out further into my living room and back before and after serious listening sessions, I might have chosen them over my Duntech Princesses (another classic design, IMO).