Need suggestions for new speakers under $5K

Gershman Acoustics Avant Garde RX-20. They go down easily to 24 Hz and can be found on the used market for about $3000. I love my pair and would never part with them (unless I got a bigger room and more money :) ). They sound great with either solid state or tube equipment. The 300 wpc Mac will drive them with much authority....I can guarantee it.

http://www.gershmanacoustics.com/avantgarde.html

If you want to blow yourself away... check out the Audiogon speaker section and look for a pair of Hales T-8's. These speakers are amazing and the price is right in your wheelhouse.

Biro's are the best speaker for the $ without question.
I have compared to the Snell line for 2-3 time the $ and B&W for 5 times the $. I can not think / imagine any of these other manufactures even coming close. Sixteen hundred bucks, no-one can touch them at that price.

Not accurate, but musical?

A playback system is typically intended to hear the music that was recoreded onto the source material. If you do not want to do that 'accurately', how can you expect to hear 'musical'.

The system (or any component therein) that produces any sonic characteric at all of its own is inferior, and does add to the recorded material. It is called distortion.

How can anyone expect for the distortion to result in anything that could be characterised as 'musical', the magazine reviewer 'connesseurs of coloration' notwithstanding. But then they have the task of selling expensive equipment that is actually inferior at accomplishing the task it alleges to fulfill, usually depicted by lousy specs, so they must take the tact that this or that equipment makes your music sound 'better'.

Absurd, irrational, and illogical. Yet they have hooked many a self proclaimed audiophile into their unreasonable deception, and lined their pockets with the proceeds.

Sad, really.

Accurate is good. Always, and in everything.

Well Didactically,

I was hoping you'd at least recommend me an "accurate" pair of speakers after all that, but it just ended up being a worthless reply in this thread.

At this price point, no speakers or components are perfectly accurate. No pair of speakers for example put out a perfectly flat frequency from 20Hz - 20KHz, so most, if not all components and speakers are "flawed" and "colored" in some way.

An example of speakers I would not want is Wilson WATT/Puppy 7 system. I know it's far out of my budget range, but I hear this is one of the most accurate pair of speakers. I don't want to hear every mistake the sound engineers made recording the music, I want to just enjoy the music. I actually prefer something a little warm, probably why I love McIntosh sound too. It may be the "wrong" sound the artists didn't intend for me to hear, but if I like it better and enjoy it more than the truth, is that really a crime?

Anyway, if you have a good pair of accurate speakers under $5K, please recommend me one and I'll go demo it and see what your idea of the "right" sound is.