Soundstage and explosive dynamics?


I’m looking high and low for speakers with the following attributes:

1. Wide and deep soundstage. Speakers can disappear from the soundstage.
2. Decent imaging.
3. Explosive dynamics with force and surprise.
4. Costs less than $10k.

madavid0
@koost_amojan

Your Focal 936 are excellent but 3 x 6.5 inch woofers with 1 inch voice coil and 4mm Vmax simply do not compare to a typical pro 15 inch woofer with 3 or 4 inch voice coil and 10 mm Vmax. In surface area alone, one 15 inch woofer is roughly equivalent to all six of your woofers and this larger surface area coupled with the greater linear excursion from a huge motor and also combined with a much larger box means up to four times more air and about eight times more SPL power.

The large voice coil also dissipates heat much more effectively than a tweeter sized voice coil. This translates also to higher SPL and dynamics.

There is a very noticeable difference from the mostly upper bass that you hear from your speakers - you really feel the kick drum on a big speaker - a kind of room air compression much more like the sound of a real 24" kick drum.
Not sure the OP mentioned the room size he/she intends to use whatever speakers meet his/her four criteria.

I think the smaller the room, the more I would agree with kosst_amojan and rbstehno that you don't need giant woofers for great dynamics. Well designed smaller woofers in numbers are rather potent.

However, I think extremely large rooms or even outdoor venues where one is wanting to top 100+ decibel levels is where the point about physics and horn-loaded speakers as suggested by analogluvr and phusis becomes more prevalent.

For a modestly sized home room space, I don't think 15 inch woofers and large horns are needed to achieve what the OP desires. On the other hand, if you're wanting to fill an "auditorium" with sound, I think you would have to go with multiple 15 inch woofers and horns.
@csmgolf 
More stupid from you. No surprise. I'm guessing you've never even listened to Tools recorded work. Dynamically compressed doesn't at all describe it. Or DCD for that matter. 

@shadorne 
Multiple 15 inch drivers with 4 inch voice coils is borderline absurd for a normal living room. Nobody has of yet explained to me the benefits if trying to accurately move a hulking, heavy cone when smaller, lighter cones tend to behave better with just a few watts through them. Isn't there some virtue in a driver that will faithfully reproduce bass at 1 or 2 watts? I'm a lot more interested in drivers that will produce accurate bass at a half a watt than I am in drivers that will make crazy bass at 100 watts. No matter how you cut the cake, mass is a limiting factor in dynamic performance. Massive SPL's isn't broad dynamic range. It's just loud. How good is the bass at 35dB? 
^ There are plenty of large cone drivers can be driven to high levels with low power.

Many of the ubiquitous 3-way, narrow baffle, ~$3k towers can do dynamics fairly well, but I haven't come across any that can produce sound with the sheer scale of something like Klipsch Cornwalls. 


Question is do horns, generally speaking, produce life-like dynamics or exaggerated 'life-unlike' dynamics ?
As I understand, 15" woofer is difficult to make fast, maybe couple of 10" - 12" would be better ?
I would not expect any $3k speakers with any source and amps to give me a real scale, $30k would be a more realistic figure, I guess.
Having said that, I read some review of the Gryphon Diablo 300 integrated where the reviewer, after he had done his tests, tried this $16k integrated with $500 Elac monitor speakers, just for fun. He was close to shock - he didn't expect them to be able to play like that.
Speakers need great amps.