What the best 89-90 db speaker I can buy for 3k?

Out of curiosity why do you worry about efficiency over most of the other stuff folks worry about?

In Classical music, which is 90% of what I listen to, dynamics are many times greater than in other music, the lack of same makes things somewhat "dead" no matter if the tone, imaging, scale etc is spot on.

Fritz Carbon 7s. I don't sell them but they are a steal at the price.

Montana EPS

And I did make them many many years ago :-)

Best of luck

Peter

This weekend, at the Capital Audiofest, I happen to hear the Odyssey Lorelei speaker ($2,700) in a reasonably priced setup (something like $5,400 for amp, preamp, speaker and cables). This was a terrific sounding setup for the money. The sound was full bodied, which is particularly suited for classical music, and had reasonable weight and scale.