Best loudspeaker on the 3k range???

You should listen to the Hales Revelation 3's; they retail for $2195 and sound much better than the 804's. They will surprise you in terms of sonic quality for the price, and likley are better than most speakers up to $5,000/pr. Good luck. bobm

My Paragon Acoustics Radiants list for $2900, I'd sell them to you for $1650. I could e-mail you photos.

The Totem Acoustic Forest.

The Nova's use the Revelator tweeter, so I'd get them, if you've got to pay retail. I have those tweeters for one of my projects. There's a reason they're in all the statement speakers from PBN, Nova, Sonus Faber...The Merlins use the Esotar, but it isn't really better than the Revelator, just more expensive. However, the Esotar dome midrange (I have them also) is entirely better at being a midrange than the tweeter is at being a tweeter, and that's saying a lot!

Check out the Celestion A3 or if you don't like metal domes tweeeters,the Dynaudio Contour (the one down from the 3.3) The JBL SVA-2100 is a good choice if you listen to a lot of heavy metal and rock and roll. They will dynamically outperform the other speakers mentioned easily. These speakers are the closest you can get to the $5,000-$10,000 range. Matter of fact, they probably outperform quite a few speakers in that price range.