speaker upgrade fever

I’ve a fair bit of seat time setting up two systems now with Mimas ( which is like all Jim White designs ) a very robust but neutral product …it is not bright. Both systems used the Treo CT which has a fantastic tweeter - reasonably flat to 30 khz. For your budget used you can get Quattro CT w built in subs, 11 bands of EQ below 120 hz … and a glorius midrange… you will need to have Aesthetix or your tech high pass tge Mimas. I’m a fan of the KEF also…  they have great engineers with ears also

The KEF Reference 1, as well as its bigger siblings, have been objectively measured to a very high degree of accuracy and are natively about as neutral a speaker as you can find.  The Reference family of speakers (excluding the 4c center channel, which has a bit more deviation with some rolled-off treble) is within 2dB of the reference level frequency. If you want a warmer tone, that's fine, and I'll second the Legacy Audio products as a great fit there, but if they are coming across as bright, that's far more likely the effect of your room and/or your electronics imparting that brightness. Before investing in new speakers, look at your space and see if you need to adjust your speakers' toe-in or put in some treatments to knock down the highs a bit.

Pure Audio Project open baffle speakers. I have/breaking in Quintet 10's with Heil AMT Tweeters.  Many options and configurations. Talk with Ze'ev--great guy.

Without a doubt, Fink Team KIM. Efficient, glorious mid-range, electrostatic-like tweeter but maybe better, some eq adjustments on rear of speaker, not a big box and beautiful German-made cabinets in a wide range of finishes. Fabulous reviews.

I have a private email asking

Where did you send your 2905. I have 3 of 4 crackling ? mylar repair?? I live in MInnesota.

I cannot reply to private emails on Audiogon, so my answer must be public.

I pull the panels out myself, which requires some mechanical and soldering skills.  I then send them to John Hall who lives near Melbourne Australia.  He gives a five year warranty on panel repairs and charges about A$300 per panel.

I used to try to identify which panel had become faulty, and get them fixed one at a time.  I think I can pull a 2905 apart in my sleep.  The reality is the glue used was defective and all panels fail at about the same time after 10 years.  John reckons you might as well repair all the panels at the same time and I now agree with him.  The last 3 of my 12 panels are currently being repaired.

I did try to repair panels myself, but could not find a way to coat the mylar with the required slightly conductive film.

Obviously the panels are much lighter than the entire speaker so it may be viable to send them to the antipodes for repair.  Not sure if John wants extra work though ...