A future city dweller's dilemma...


Hey all:

Just wanted to ask all the experts here your opinion on things. Currently I live in the suburbs where space and such is never an issue. But in the (very) near future I will (hopefully) be living in a condo in the *big city.* Which means, certain sacrifices have to be made... (IE: my Magnepan 1.6QRs).

So the question is this... What tablet speakers should I pick up for about the $1000 mark (used price.) The current equipment that I have (that I hopefully plan on taking with me) are the following:

Sonic Frontiers SFCD-1
XBox 360 (not really relevant, but wanted to throw that in)

And EITHER:

Krell KAV-300r (Integrated Amp)
OR
Cary Sixpac Monoblocks and
Dynaco PAS-3 Preamp

I currently have a pair of MMGs also (as a back up, bought it all for a good deal, but I loaned them to my uncle) Which I could always sell off or try using those instead.

For the most part I'm a jazz/vocals/instrumentals listening kind of guy for my CD collection.

I was originally look at any of the B&W tablettes but I don't think any of them are in my price range. Then I looked into ProAc's also which looks like that might do the trick. Can anyone recommend any others that I should look into?

Thanks all for your help in advance!

~W.
neway317

Showing 1 response by mrjstark

Or Omega Super Hemp, Super 3. I, like you have had that problem with my 2nd system. I bought AAD 2001 monitors and love it. However it might be very difficulte to find these in your price range......maybe if you sold Maggies ? Sometimes they show up on AgoN for sale for around $1500 but not very often. If you like Jazz, blues and like to listen to live performance they are very , very good with bass that goes down to 30Hz and very fast, open , lots of air , transparent and huge presentation/soundstage. AADs also look good and are buid like a rock at 20kilos each. At 86db they are not that difficulte of a load to most amps out there.

The advice to keep everything and try Maggies is right on and that is what you should do first , along with the choice of your new place as someone suggested it already. Take some wife friendly acoustic treatments into your concideration as well, since those help a lot in fine tuning the sound and help with problematic Freqs.