Looking to upgrade Gallo Strada?

I suspect you can do substantially better than the 3.5s MSRP new, but that might be 4k or so, not 2500. At your pricepoint, I'd take the Selah Veritas (or whatever Rick's current monitor is) over the Stradas, and possibly also the Fritz Carbon 7s. Also worth consideration are some of the Zu models; they are a great company to deal with, and often have good deals on b-stock. Amp matching might be more complex with Zu, but they are very helpful and worth a call. Ditto Selah and Fritz: good guys all.

John

One further thought, Ariaudio.

You don't want to make a lateral move, and you've got a budget of around 2-2.5k. But the speakers you own, the Stradas, are very good at that pricepoint, and you've got a sub to compensate for their main weakness. Give the quality of your current set up, and your target price, I think you'd have to get pretty lucky to make anything but a lateral move. You could certainly get a *different* sound that you like better, or improvent in a particular respect, but obvious, all around, improvement will be harder to come by.

I think you'd be well served by patience, and careful watching of the used market: your budget get's you into speakers with north of 5k MSRP, and that presents a wealth of options. Even this way, pretty hard to beat what you've got, but definitely more likely, and you'll have fun shopping.

John

John - I appreciate the help immensely. So, I should probably wait till I have a working budget of $3,000 used?

3k used will by a lot of speaker, especially for a smaller room. (I used ti have a room like yours; a bit hard to know how to think of sizes in open floor plan.) You might start researching new speakers up to 7k or so, where there will be tons of choices. Are any of the shows, like RMAF, close to you?

Meanwhile, you've got nice speakers!

John