What speakers for 10k?

The Stiff Breeze will most certainly be better for the type of music you listen to. I got to hear them at Axpona a couple of years ago and liked them quite a bit. If your room is not real big, they will play quite loud without being stressed and are about 4 db more sensitive than Breeze. The bass extension posted on their site is spot on and quite surprising for the size of the speaker. Another thing about the Stiff Breeze is that that it is essentially the top half of Nimbus. The Nimbus adds an Acoustic Elegance 15 inch woofer to the Stiff Breeze. AE woofers are absolutely top notch. If you like Stiff Breeze, there would be no reason to believe you wouldn't like Nimbus provided your room could accommodate them sonically.

I agree with both Toddnkaya and Roscoeiii in regards to the necessity to be patient. Builds can take a long time and have unexpected delays. The end result is worth it provided you can exercise patience. Let us know what you decide.

I am very happy with my Aerial 7Ts. They fit your budget nicely!

Yeah vapor told me the same thing that the stiff breeze would handle my musical taste better, and offered to send me the breeze to tide me over until they had my stiff breeze ready. sounds like a good deal to me.

Vapor is a custom speaker shop, when you discuss your tastes for music and sound...ryan and pete will make suggestions for upgrades. Vapor, without a doubt, offers sensational speaker for the money. For example, I purchased the lsa statement 1's and terry london did a very nice review of them. that is, until Terry London reviewed the stiff breeze and he pretty much said in his review that Stiff Breeze trumped the lsa's easily.

I'm going to go with the stiff breeze for now and if I feel the need to upgrade I'll take a more serious look at their higher offerings. I think at some point I'll end up with the Nimbus just love the looks of that speaker, and the 15 inch driver in it makes me wonder if I would ever need to run any subs with these speakers? and so far their customer service is excellent, and good customer support is what sold me on Parasound and psa subs. I'm going to place my order Monday, so it'll be at least a month give or take till I get them, but until then id sure like to hear about anyone's experience with vapor.