Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound

Get 2 pairs of speakers for different flavors,  not get bored with the same speaker and to accommodate a wider variety of.musical genres. Your room seems big enough to fit 2 pairs & the following should fit in your budget..

Speaker#1 JBL K2 S9900

Speaker#2 Tekton Moab

Tektons with the mid array have a very unique sound...its own separate category of speaker.

I am looking to spend about 20-30k on used speakers ( guessing they would have been -40K new a few years back). Any suggestions welcome. I have a 14*20 room and I am looking for dynamics, potentially a great sounding horn or equivalent. Excited by Tektons but since I have the budget wondering if there’s anything better. I did have the JBL M2s that I really enjoyed and Revel Salon 2s that I didn’t so much

I have heard the Meyer bluehorn. It's a bit of a shame that most audiophiles will never hear some of these pro audio gems...because, I suppose, it didn’t have the gloss finish for the cabinets, in spite of all the engineering that goes into it.

I currently have some tad 'influenced' horns.. Pioneer'sXY series (not that cheap) in my lake cabin...with modest electronics tied to it most times. It easily puts most things I heard at axpona this year to shame...if one doesn’t mind the lack of that glossy cabinet finish, that is..

When Levinson takes a pa speaker, i.e., from that ethos, puts a nice finish on it and sets the price at 200k, it stays backordered with audiophiles running after it.

Look for a pair of used Meyer Sound X-10’s. They’re active speakers and are about the best that can be had in the 15" woofer/midrange + horn/waveguide class of speakers out there. That’s including the JBL M2, K2 S9900, Everest’s etc., and yes, you’ll have to take my word for it. They don’t sound like horns but deliver a big, effortless, delicate and coherent presentation. Great tonality as well. There’s a "domesticized" tower version in veneer, but I’d seek out the regular

@phusis 

Absolutely, and yes, its a rather unique design...for the horn world, that is ( or i haven’t seen something like it in the past). i would wager that some CFD kinda guy at TAD took over  and a whole lotta sims got run before it came to fruition. I also picked up the horn sub from the series. If i had to get stranded on an island, i’d probably abandon everything else and take this stuff with me.

 Here is their engineering spilling a few technical details....I am in the process of putting a nice finish on the cabinet and painting it a very dark crimson red or a very dark green (can’t decide yet)....make it very very audiophile lookin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8PRw31aSIc

The Pioneer XY-3B speakers are seriously interesting speakers, kudos. I bet they can both bring down the house and be a refined, coherent listen as well?

That’s about the Maggi cube on the mechanisms at play here indeed. 

The perception of "slam", for example, has more to do with phase characteristics, not just drivers in a single speaker, but when more than 1 speaker is in a listening space, as would be the case with stereo or multichannel. Its an engineered solution present in a couple of brands inside pro audio...about which most "audiophile" brands have little to no clue ( i.e., the latter would prefer to keep spending up the clueless tree)

Your point about "hifi" bass and what it is / should be about is...

I do agree in principle, but I do like some slam too, and I’m not resigned to the two being mutually exclusive.