Suggest your most desired MSRP $1,500-$3,000 Stand Mount for a Shootout.

i too am curious if the ’shootout’ actually occurred and what the deemed results and 'winners' were - especially given the seemingly wide spread of speakers sizes designs etc etc

i don’t know if proac and atc have an entry level standmount under 3 grand retail price anymore, if so, they should be included in any comparison trying to cover ’best of breed’

thanks @chorus, got it

i am curious to know, when time comes, what amp(s) you end up using for the demos

@tomic601

What is your plan / gear method to …level match ?

and who is “ we “ ?

as the comments accumulate, i have not yet seen a reply to jim’s queries above, which are important

also, to his second point, i am wondering what is the purpose of the shoot out - there are standmounts of vastly different sizes, used for vastly different applications - for example a harbeth p3 and a monitor 40 are both ’standmounts’, but vastly vastly different in use, ability, purpose, and need for room or equipment based ancillary bass reinforcement

the op might shed some light on all this, so the ’help’ he seeks on this thread might be more on target

@chorus

just a suggestion, for an affordable, yet true ’reference’ level amp, i think you would do well with a smaller hegel integrated (use the amp section, not necessarily the dac section, though if a current gen model, that can also be used) - h95, rost, h120

msrp $2000-3000 - hard to do better for top tier uber clean pure sounding amplification with exemplary bass control, hegels will make sure all tested speakers are well driven and are not artifically being affected by an amp’s flawed ability to deal with odd loads and current delivery demands

JJss- Fritz is a bit above the pricing

yes the carrera ’be’ model may be a touch above -- sorry

pls talk to fritz have him send you his best set for 3 grand msrp (i bought my be’s from him for less than 3 grand, he is a small but well known maker, not sure what his ’official’ msrp’s are for the various models but i am confident to say that most who want a set of new be’s could get them from fritz at or very near 3 grand)

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Proac D2R

these are $4500 msrp

worth consideration are fritz’s carrera be and the buchardt s400, now in its 2nd iteration

there are others i am aware of and have owned but their current prices exceed the stated range