$25k speakers, are we there yet?

Hmm. Stock KTM exhaust or aftermarket with a tune / ECU remap? 

Imo your sourse if the most important since everything starts and starts there.

for example buy the Excellent Denafrips Terminator plus it is superb on. Most any level ,just give it a very good power cord and clean power ,your system will sound as real and natural  by far then the vast majority out there and a bargain at that .

i have heard this dac against dacs at 2-3x the price for $6350 ,

the closest to this ,the HoloSprings May KTE dac  which is not far behind .

First thing you should do is isolate your speakers from the vibration of the Earth and the other speaker which will also isolate all your electronics, the best product to do that is called the Townshend podiums, they're not cheap but unbelievable how well they work it's like changing all your electronics it was that much better check them out read the reviews.

ASR members walk away. For the rest of us.

Well there is something to be said for speakers that have good FR, IR, do not suffer compression, and have well behaved radiation pattern. And then we can talk about cabinet resonances, or a lack of them.

Whether one likes measurements or not, the speaker designers that are not using measurements, and do not provide the, can sometimes be viewed as hiding something.

These big expensive speakers really do need the stars to align for us to ever reach their potential so when my last speakers didn’t do well with the source I had instead of upgrading the source I swapped speakers. What do you need to hear/see/know about your speakers to take the next step and build a 20 year system around them?

It was not overly difficult years ago to find a set.
They have lasted a few decades.
The rest of the system is now to the point that maybe I should consider a speaker upgrade.

What are your goals for speakers?
Musicality? Or something that is neutral and accurate/correct?
Without some “goodness” metric it is hard to agree one what is good… or to compare two speakers and find one is more good than another.

@havocman 

If the vibration of the earth is relevant then you need to isolate yourself from it as well.  Stick some podia under the feet of your listening chair.

Boing boing.