$1k speakers / Audio Refinement Complete

There is a place in Arizona called Speaker Ect. they sell YBA and audio refinment, Pass Labs. They also make there own speakers. And let me tell you they are just awesome. There all hand made. I would call them for a bourcher, there number is 602-272-6696. Ask for Bill (actually there is only 2 of them)so I guess the other would be ok. This place is not a big fancy place it's just 2 guys that know High End. It's easy the say that there Hand MadeSpeaker they sell at $1100 would be a $3000.00 dollar speaker if it went through all the Distribution Channels. They only reason I say that is I was just took a friend over to listen to some high end equipment. And we listen to PASS, YBA, with all kinds of speaker, but magic happened when he played the Audio Refinement on a pair of there hand made Speakers. For the price it easily equaled stuff twice as much. Regards, I hope it helps

I have an ARC with a pair of Aegis 1 and I'm not very happy. If you like your music very laidback I guess it would be good, but I prefer forward and detailed. When I had the Aegius hooked to an Acurus rl-11 and A80 they sounded very good indeed, but the ARC is just a bad mix. I don't think the speakers or the amp are in themselves the problem. I think it's the combination. Silk dome tweeter and 'tube' like SS are a bad mix(at least in this price range). I decided to go with a Sim I-5080(I guess I love the Aegis too much to sell), but if I were to keep the ARC I'd prob go with B&W CDM1 SE(good price now that matirx series is out), Triangle Zephir(#1 choice for $1000), NHT 2.5i($800 on ebay new) or any other good quality speaker with a metal tweeter. The ARC is just too laidback, although very smooth and grain free, for speakers that attempt the same. Just MHO.

The Vienna Acoustics haydn would be a good match for $995.00

Perhaps too numerous to count. I would lean towards buying used - should be able to buy in great shape at 50-70% of list. For around 1000, with some patience, you could/should find Vandersteen 2C, Maggie 1.6 (not sure the amp can handle these), ProAc Studio 125/150 or Response 1, and many others. If you can go a little higher, there is a pair of Soliloquoy 5.3 on this site now for 1300. Happy hunting.

I'm using an Audio Refinement integrated with B&W CDM2 SE speakers in my office system, great match for a reasonable price.