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What is a good all around high quality speaker to purchase?

I'm looking for a high performance all around musical speaker. My previous speakers are:

Bose 501 - I was young and they served a purpose

Infinity SM150 - terrible from the start

Boston Acoustics T1000 - actually a nice all around speaker

Polk SDA-SRS1tl - loved the full sound, not accurate at all

Thiel 2.3 - Very dry sounding

B&W N802 - perhaps my favorite, but needed to be played loud

Thiel 3.7 - I think Jim's cancer affected his hearing

B&W 802D - 1st gen, still have.....please stop my ears from bleeding

 

What do you suggest?

 

 

onehorsepony
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audioman58
4,354 posts
 

Sonus Faber New G2 3 models much trickle down technologies 

great customer feedback  from $4-$8k  excellent sonics and quality!!

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blackbag20
571 posts
 

@triton20trx appreciate your input on Totem ... always been enamored with that group!

refast
23 posts
 

get some room corrected actively driven speakers like Genelec SAMs and be done, forever.  hear what the recoding engineer heard!

moto_man
398 posts
 

A little higher than you are looking to spend, but consider the Wilson Audio Sasha DAW.  Good prices on the used market and a truly excellent and versatile speaker.  I have the Sabrina X’s, which are fantastic for my small 11.5x11.5x11 music room.  If my room was bigger, I would definitely have gone for the Sasha DAW.

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ganach
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I recently switched to a PureAudioProject Trio.  Still have Thiels and Ohm Walsh 5s, but the open baffle deployment of the PAP Trio does so much so well.  You do need to keep them a few feet out from the wall though.

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