Greetings Blw,
I hope you don't mind a dealer crawling out of the woodwork here...
You see, I own and sell electrostats, and I'm also quite partial to Maggies. In my experience, not many "box" speakers successfully follow in the footsteps of a good planar.
Among the few that can follow on the heels of planars is the Gradient Revolution. They are very relaxing - you can listen to 'em all day long. And there are smaller, similarly-voiced Gradients to round out a multi-channel system. I have a customer with Gradients who previously owned Quad 988's, 989's, and Martin Logan Odysseys. He's had the Revolutions for about a year and a half now - which for him is a record.
A pair of Revolutions and a trio of Preludes (for center and rear) would be in your price ballpark and would sound quite good. I haven't heard the Revolutions with your amps - they tend to like big, lively amplifiers like the Parasound JC-1's.
I can arrange an in-home demo of the Revolutions for you if you'd like, and of course I'd be more than happy to take a shot at any questions you might have.
More info at www.gradient.fi.
Best of luck to you whichever way you go,
Duke
I hope you don't mind a dealer crawling out of the woodwork here...
You see, I own and sell electrostats, and I'm also quite partial to Maggies. In my experience, not many "box" speakers successfully follow in the footsteps of a good planar.
Among the few that can follow on the heels of planars is the Gradient Revolution. They are very relaxing - you can listen to 'em all day long. And there are smaller, similarly-voiced Gradients to round out a multi-channel system. I have a customer with Gradients who previously owned Quad 988's, 989's, and Martin Logan Odysseys. He's had the Revolutions for about a year and a half now - which for him is a record.
A pair of Revolutions and a trio of Preludes (for center and rear) would be in your price ballpark and would sound quite good. I haven't heard the Revolutions with your amps - they tend to like big, lively amplifiers like the Parasound JC-1's.
I can arrange an in-home demo of the Revolutions for you if you'd like, and of course I'd be more than happy to take a shot at any questions you might have.
More info at www.gradient.fi.
Best of luck to you whichever way you go,
Duke