What are the top 3 dream speakers you wanna buy next regardless of price?

Magnepan 30.7. They're the best speakers I've ever heard, though to be fair, I haven't heard the other flagships in recent years under good conditions, just at shows where speakers are rarely at their best.

I currently have Tympani IVa's, so I have the space for them, a small dedicated room. (Needless to say, both the Tympanis and 30.7's would sound better in a larger room, but acoustic treatment has done wonders for the room I have and the slam of large planars in a small room is not to be believed!)

LOL, you could play them all at once and average their strengths. :-)

It's true, isn't it? Everything one the list has its strong points. (Haven't heard Roger Modjeski's new ESL, though.)

I wonder if Wendell has done just that -- listened with 30.7's on one side of the room and IVa's on the other.

One thing I'll say -- I've heard the 30.7's twice and both times were in decent but less than ideal dealer setups, but they do some things that the IVa's just can't touch. The new high performance midrange driver is killer, the only other time I've heard midrange that realistic is on ESL-57's. And according to Wendell, they added the new midbass coupler so that the bass panels wouldn't intrude on the clarity of the midrange with the single pole crossover.

My IVa's do do some things that the 30.7's didn't do but not sure how much if anything that has to do with triamping and how much has to do with their being in a small room with tweeters in and not having 20 other guys in the room with me. But I don't see why you couldn't biamp the 30.7's if you were willing to open them up and bypass the crossover. I think I'd want to wait for the warranty to expire first, though. :-)

Mijostyn, great summary. One quibble, line sources fall of as 1/R, and point sources as 1/R^2. Also, the full length Maggie lines act more as line sources in the bass, though not perfectly because of the way the resonances are distributed (lowest frequency segments near the floor to take advantage of the reinforcement). But any planar woofer is going to react very differently in a small room than a large one because of proximity to side walls. The 30.7 solves this with separate bass panels that are tuned to be flat when positioned at the side walls. For smaller Maggies in a big room, they recommend reinforcing the midbass with the DWM.

BTW, I don't know of any speakers that equals the clarity of ESL's, but taken as a whole, the 30.7's are the most realistic speakers I've ever heard -- between the ribbon tweeter and the new high quality midrange, they have a stat-like clarity to them, whereas earlier Maggies lost some of their clarity as they got down to the midrange (but were still clearer than dynamics).