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RE: Yes, I have asked him about his tastes and his room...

I would suggest that many rooms would allow other types than conventional boxes to sound better, but people rarely seriously consider the alternatives.

When people start this hobby they usually buy used speakers or maybe DIY. Invariably this is with box designs and most of us don't consider anything else, but as budgets increase to the level you are talking about, there is often something better than boxes in many rooms. For truly live performance sounding music, I'd suggest that horns or electrostatics (let's include other panel types here) will offer better imaging and greater excitement factor that more closely approaches the original live performance than box designs. I spent 40+ years with good quality (mainly) box speakers of one type or another, but I've grown out of them after a particular box design disappointed to the extent that a Stereophile review of the AG Unos described exactly the sound I wanted and that was so lacking in the otherwise highly considered boxes I was previously using.

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