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Which $7000 speakers to ask Santa?

I am considering forking out up to $7,000 maximum on a used pair of floorstanders that need to be my last pair (joke! at least last me 5-10 yrs and stop upgrading). Room is 13*21*7 and the rest of the system is slightly on the warm side of neutral so my preference goes for neutral to revealing speakers with very tight bass and lower mid (room accoustic tendency to emphasize the 100-500 Hz). On my short list are:
- Verity Audio Parsifal Encore
- Avalon Ascendant Gen II(new tweeter with more bite than gen I)or Opus Ceramic
- JM Lab Diva Utopia Be

I would love full range but not at the expense of bass quality so a 28-30Hz min can do if of high quality.

Any suggestions?

Txs
beheme
brianmgrarcom
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I agree with the Wilson Sophia recommendation.
garryh
94 posts
 
Hi Beheme,

You might consider a pair of Focus Audio FS-888.

Slightly warmish and a very detailed sound especially. Female/Male voice accuracy is definately a strong suit. Finish to die for with WAF off the scale. Frequency range 30-25K with the 30 number being solid - I know as I own a pair. Sorry though, mine are not for sale :).

Normally these retail new for about USD 7 to 8K, so, buying used, definately right where you want to be. In a review on www.onhifi.com, Wes Phillips compared these very favorably the Wilson Sofia and I've seen them favorably compared to the Verity Parsifal as well.

Don't think you'd be dissappointed. I've put in a good word to Santa for you - see memo below . . .

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Memo
To: Mr. S. Claus (aka, Chris Cringle, The Jolly Fat Man, etc, etc.)
From: GarryH

Subject: New Speaks for Beheme

We 'goners believe Beheme has been, on the whole, very good this year - bring him some shiny nice new speaks from Canada :>>

Merry Christmas,
Garry
unsound
6,115 posts
 
Dunlavy SC IVA, with money left over.
beheme OP
231 posts
 
Garry:

really appreciate the letter to Santa and the rec for Focus Audio...so close to me that I tend to forget about this brand!
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zephyr24069
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Try Legacy Audio Focus 20/20, 16Hz-30Khz (+/- 2db),ability to play a large variety of material musically from pipe organ and full symphony to techno and rock. They retail at around $6500, are extremely well built and a tremendous value for the money with no markup do to import, distributors, etc....If you have questions on them,let me know as I own a pair and am very pleased.

see the Stereophile review of them in 2004.
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