Picking Speakers 20k-30k

@ronboco There was no update to the speakers. It was a price increase only. I bought the Atria II @$26k it then went to $28 and then $38k. I truly think that $26- 28 is a good price range for the atria. The Avior was also a good price ice at $40k. They are too close in price now imo. If I was in the market the Avior would be my pick for $7k more. It is interesting as the Cygnus only went up $5k in the same time frame. Hopefully if the can scale production up a bit and optimize work flow they can get better pricing out there. They make top notch speakers. 

@creditingkarma 

Maybe the Atria and Avior were selling so good they thought they could bump the price way up and still have strong sales. I do love my Avior ii. 
 

Happy listening! 
 

@ronboco 

My understanding is that the difference in price to produce the two speakers was not too different.  It is possible they were not making enough on the atria compared to the rest of the line up. I do miss my Atria II. I do hope to one day own the Orion or Lyra. For now I am searching for my next speaker. 

Thanks all who have suggested speakers. I’ve given at least cursory looks at every suggestion posted and have just begun a process of elimination (although still open to additions). A few will need to be aesthetics-driven, a few will be based on lack of availability and the fact that i can’t travel to 20+ hifi shops nationally in the hopes of hearing them all.

@pennfootball71 I stopped at a local dealer yesterday in the hopes of hearing the YG Summit and he claimed that they aren’t shipping yet (or something about a HiFi store in Colorado was the only one who’d actually gotten their hands on a pair). I’m not sure if you heard them at an Expo or if the dealer was just making excuses for not having a pair. I was able to listen to a set of YG Tor bookshelf speakers and was impressed.

@creditingkarma Sounds like you’re on the same journey, anything on your shortlist for speakers?

Rockports. Either Atrias (new) or Aviors (used)