After nearly 20 years, I left Magnepan and went ProAc


Listened to proac d48r's a few weeks ago and fell in love at first listen. After a couple of days I got my wife to sign my "permission slip" and took the plunge and they now reside where my 1.6 once stood.  You see, I've never heard a speaker literally mesmerize me and engage me like this before.  Sure the Maggie's have a huge image and soundstage and transparency, but these Proacs simply sound more like a real event, with dynamics and palpability, with a more refined and true sound.  The images are much more dense.   

I only have 48 hours on them so they are nowhere near their final voice, but they are breaking in nicely.  The manual says they require a lengthy break in.  I pulled out my old marantz cd-5000 to do the break in honors and will run these straight for a week or two and then taper off with normal listening.   

One thing I dont care for are the spikes. They have these little slits that aid in tightening, but no tool to go around them, so I can't get a good tightening with just my fingers.......so the spikes jiggle.  When I check  I can hear the spike and lock but chatter, and   this is not helping my  stability or sound.  Any sugesstions to tighten them right would be helpful. Thanks.  Cheers to a new chapter!   Wanted to share my excitement with you.  So grateful and never thought I would have speakers like This.  It feels like a dream!

audiolover718

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I was about to upgrade my Proac Studio 140MKII to the D48R but cancelled it because I realized that I don’t have the space for them my listening room is too small  the D48R need big space to breath , it’s like putting an elephant in porcelain store.You just have to be patient till finishing the basement in the future .
@milpai my room size is 10*13 feet the Proac Studio 140MK II works perfectly in my listening room,I did consider the D30R but I am afraid that it’s some kind of a degrade mooving from 2.5 way speakers to 2 way ones.

I agree with @axeis1 that the ProAcs sound better when placed closer to each other place them more than 10 feet and the soundstage start to collapse and the sound will be less transparent and muddy.
The great thing about the 140 that they’re not too fussy you can just throw them in the room and make a little adjustments latter on.
The big problem with all Proac’s speakers that they do need very longgggggg break-in period it took me about 6 month to open them up and about a year for full break in but after that the sound is amazing. Moreover if I don’t listen to the Proac’s couple of days they sound is terrible: bright and harsh and do need at least  3-5 hours break in to recover again.
I suspect the successor the Studio 148 is no longer in production because Proac removed it from their official website.
My Proac Studio 140MK II are in diagnal placement too the right speaker is closer to me than the left one it’s a very odd configuration but this is the best "sweet spote" I could find in my room the soundstage is huge and the sound is very smooth and transparent ,when I put them first at the classic triangle configuration to me with a slight toe in the soundstage is narrow and the sound became muddy and aggressive.
Very strange indeeded.

Don’t worry after long break in and mooving them to a bigger space your Proac will be amazing.be patient !