Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo Upgrade choices for M60 owners with a few grands?

You can probably build that Meadowlark for much much cheaper. If you like the meadowlark look at DIY designs. I can tell you off the bat that they are using the scanspeak revelator tweeter and the mid end scanspeak 18w/8546. The midrange is the scanspeak revelator mid.

I agree that the Vadersteins are great speakers, so are the relatively modestly priced Harbeth and Spendors. The Maggies are incredible and very modestly priced.

Wow, that's interesting. I am not very handy, but will look into this.

DIY high-end speakers? That's a totally new concept too me. You learn something new everyday.

Oh yes, a set of maggys . I might get a set of mmg's for my home office.

Thiel 2.4's.

A friend of mine has a pair of Allison One speakers that he bought from a kid in the early 80's for $100! Not too long ago, they were brought back into production and I believe they go for around $3500. I'm not sure about that though.

Anyway, they have a smooth natural sound about them that is highly detailed. They aren't very forward speakers, but they aren't laid back or warm either...just very neutral. They seem to require a lot of power though. The only thing I'm not too keen about is their wide dispersion design. They are made to be placed against a wall and away from the corners. It's a nice feature if placement is an issue, but somehow I feel the imaging is being compromised a bit. I'd still like to have a pair of them though.

DIY used to be the most common way to get high end speakers. I think that changed about 20 years ago, but before that most really nice sounding speakers were really ugly

I would go with the VS 4jr's. Sweet speakers.

I would look at models from the following mfg'ers:

- Reference 3a (although I would not limit them to calling them bookshelves - the de Capo's are among the best regardless of size)
- Totem
- Castle
- Living Voice
- Sonus Faber
- Focus Audio

as well as some of the models mentioned above - Thiel, Maggies, Martin Logan, etc

..this list could get long!!!!