Picking Speakers 20k-30k
Recently built a HiFi System with much help from this site, now I’m looking at upgrades. Strongly considering an all-Aavik system but looking at speaker options before I pull the trigger on anything, hence the following question: If you were buying new speakers in the 20-30k range (used or new), what’s on your shortlist? Bonus points if you have suggestions based on synergy with Aaviks electronics.
If it helps the conversation: 21’X 19’ treated listening room with cathedral ceiling. Listen to a wide variety of music.
thanks for your expertise!
@gordon I am looking at several pricelist, all for 26 or 28K. But they may be out of date. Just no one cared to remove them. It's hard to impossible to find up to date pricelists from Rockport's distributor list. Zero prices published. Are you seeing it online? |
@james633 I love my Personas/Sub combo and most well-recorded music sounds great. If i put on the Black Keys recording of Crawling Kingsnake I feel like I’m in the studio with them or jamming with friends in the basement of my college house twenty years ago. That’s pretty perfect. But it’s a super-resolving system and lesser recordings have their warts on full display. Maybe I’m chasing a dragon but hopefully i can keep the great instrument separation and soundstage that I have but with a presentation that’s a touch more….forgiving?? Musical?? (Not sure what word I’m searching for here.) with run-of-the-mill recordings. If i only ever wanted to listen to Steely Dan or Pink Floyd or [fill-in-the-blank-masterfully-engineered-recording] then my search would be over. Alas, not every great band has equally great recording/engineering. Sonus Faber is on my shortlist from a previous audition of the Olympica Nova 3. Chose the Paradigm specifically for it’s more resolving presentation but the SF was more “musical” so I’m hoping further up the line (Amati?) may provide the best of both worlds. Others on my shortlist were Raidho and Borresen because of their stellar reviews and association (either past or present) with Aavik Acoustics makes good synergy likely. Kef Blade 2 Meta was a recent audition that was pretty great as well. I’m not in a rush for change but I’m not realistically going to audition twenty or thirty speakers so hoping the group’s collective wisdom can help pare things down for me. Then if I have to drive or fly somewhere once or twice, it’s a doable task.
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https://www.xactaudio.com/rockport-speakers/#!/Rockport-Atria-II/p/112761097/category=30343709 I have also seen the $38k figured mention on this forum, and others. |
@gregdude very attractive speakers. I’ll read up on them since I know my wife wont shoot them down on looks alone. Thanks! Btw that’s why Magicos aren’t on my shortlist. |
