If you want to buy new speakers for $1000, and want a beautifully detailed speaker for listening to acoustic instruments, I strongly urge you to consider Richard Sequerra's Pyramid Met 7.7. I owned an earlier version of this speaker. They have superb resolution, accurate instrumental timbre, nearly holographic imaging, and do a terrific job of reproducing acoustic instruments. As mini-monitors, they lack the bottom octave, but I'm not sure you will miss it much. Sequerra sells his speakers directly, and the price is $990 plus shipping. The Pyramid 7.7 was reviewed by Sam Tellig in the July 2000 issue of Stereophile mag.
