From Avantgarde to a conventional speaker?

My wife didn't like the idea of the red trios until she heard them in our living room.... Healing time went way down...

.....the ol' "beg for forgiveness" rule!

rob

Try Tonian Labs
I have first hand experience with the uno's and prefer the Tonian monitor.. it's also a much more conventional design

That's my opinion on the subject

I went from Trios to the Beauhorn Virtuosos and never looked back. They are more seamless and coherent and much faster. You will probably want subwoofers, however. But I used mine up to 60 Hz which is more than an octave lower than the Trio woofers are expected to cover.

Horning Agathon

Zu Definitions. I bought them instead of Aavantgarde. You will get the dynamics and speed, but you will not get the horn tone. Moreover, the Avantgardes just don't integrate. No matter how far I can position myself from them, I hear each driver separately. Definitions will give superior coherency. Also, for domestic environments not totally handed over to audiophilia, you can't beat the Definition's space utilization: in 1 square foot of floor space in a column 49" high, you get a speaker that is neutral, natural, coherent and consistent 16Hz - 25kHz, with an integrated sub-bass array.

Phil