Shopping for new speakers

" If you like B&W, you would probably like Vandersteen's, and your amps would certainly be able to drive a pair of 3a sigs which are well below $3K used."

How did you come up with that? After owning multiple pairs of speakers from both companies, I can state without hesitation, that Vandersteen is my favorite speaker,  while B&W is a speaker I've come to hate. (If anyone can think of a stronger word than hate, let me know and I'll change my post.)

They are certainly very different speakers...nothing alike at all.

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Try despise

If you want to always like to upgrade your equipment don't buy Aerial Acoustic. 
Your days of Sears Wish Book Catalog will be over. 

Those old enough know what I am talking about. 

Thank you Michael Kelly. 

I dont have a dealer here in memphis that deals sonus faber so i am going to drive to nashville to audition them this weekend. I am really looking for a speaker that that does well with my equipment but is wife friendly as well.

Wise move making the trip to audition.  I hope they meet your expectations.  Nothing beats actually hearing them vs. other brands they may have that meet your budget and the all important WAF.  So don't forget to bring music that you are very familiar with along with her.

The one good thing is that you don't need to worry about your Classe amp during the auditions,  It can most likely drive anything you are probably going to listen to this weekend.  Good luck and let us know how the auditions go.