[please excuse my bad English]
It very much depends of your musical tastes (I listen to 80% classical and I love Mahler too, as you do), distance from the speakers, room acoustics (rather more reverberation than absorption, or the opposite?), etc. As you know, of course.
I attend to classical concerts regularly. Sitting on the best seats has fine-tuned my ear-brain over the years.
What I dislike with many high-efficiency speakers (HES) is that what they achieve best is SHOUTING (but I admit that, of course, their 'live experience', dynamics, etc - is very impressive too, TBH).
BUT at least two amazing HES gobsmacked me those last years, AND pleased me immensely with their lifelike timbres:
1. Aries Cerat's Symphonia - horn, 101 dB - totally jaw-dropping, on every aspects (roughly €90k).
2. Stenheim: bass-reflex, lower efficiency though (96dB? 93dB?).
The only model I heard though is the magnificent "little" Alumine Two (2 ways, flat, does not highlights the treble, nor the bass, impressive expressiveness in the midrange). But to replace (?) your Wilson Alexia 2, only the 3 ways Stenheim Alumine Three can apply here (not heard them).
Not sure though that either of those speakers will reach bass deep enough to match your requirements.
But on timbres, even the little 2 way Stenheim is, imho, more interesting, lifelike, tuneful and, well "right"-sounding than even the mid-treble seperate "head" of high-end speakers produced by big names in the speaker industry ;-)
As for the Symphonia of Aries Cerat, they are nothing short of stellar.
To listen to those brands will probably require quite a long trip for you to have an opinion, given the distances in the US. But I think that trip will be worth it, definitely. At least, I can say you will not loose your time.
Keep us posted ;-)
It very much depends of your musical tastes (I listen to 80% classical and I love Mahler too, as you do), distance from the speakers, room acoustics (rather more reverberation than absorption, or the opposite?), etc. As you know, of course.
I attend to classical concerts regularly. Sitting on the best seats has fine-tuned my ear-brain over the years.
What I dislike with many high-efficiency speakers (HES) is that what they achieve best is SHOUTING (but I admit that, of course, their 'live experience', dynamics, etc - is very impressive too, TBH).
BUT at least two amazing HES gobsmacked me those last years, AND pleased me immensely with their lifelike timbres:
1. Aries Cerat's Symphonia - horn, 101 dB - totally jaw-dropping, on every aspects (roughly €90k).
2. Stenheim: bass-reflex, lower efficiency though (96dB? 93dB?).
The only model I heard though is the magnificent "little" Alumine Two (2 ways, flat, does not highlights the treble, nor the bass, impressive expressiveness in the midrange). But to replace (?) your Wilson Alexia 2, only the 3 ways Stenheim Alumine Three can apply here (not heard them).
Not sure though that either of those speakers will reach bass deep enough to match your requirements.
But on timbres, even the little 2 way Stenheim is, imho, more interesting, lifelike, tuneful and, well "right"-sounding than even the mid-treble seperate "head" of high-end speakers produced by big names in the speaker industry ;-)
As for the Symphonia of Aries Cerat, they are nothing short of stellar.
To listen to those brands will probably require quite a long trip for you to have an opinion, given the distances in the US. But I think that trip will be worth it, definitely. At least, I can say you will not loose your time.
Keep us posted ;-)
