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Best speakers out there for Midrange and Highs

Hello Everyone!

I would like some advise about what are some of the better speakers out there for a 2 channel system - with use of subwoofers.

I currently use a pair of significantly large - full range speakers (Revel Salon2), that go down below 20hz. Even though my speakers go down so low, I still desired more air movement / sound pressure in the room - to make the sound as palatable as possible.

I found that combining the Salon2 with an external active crossover (JL Audio CR-1) and 2 Subs (JL Audio F113s) sounds excellent. Soundstage is close to like being at a concert, and surprisingly to me, was that imaging has not been lost. Furthermore, adjusting the phases on the subwoofers basically made the speakers and subs act like a singularity and helped the system sound even more exciting. I cross over at 90hz with a 24Db decay.

However, can’t help thinking about the obvious - that I am waisting all that available bass capability on the Salon2s. So I was wondering what speakers out there could be even more appropriate for my configuration. These speakers need not go down so low - Down to 55HZ would be more than enough. On the other hand, Salon2s also have a very strong midrange and highs, so I would like the new speaker to be either:

1) Better in the mids and highs (whether same price as the Salon2 or possibly more expensive), or
2) As good in the mids and highs as the Salon2s but less expense

Very much appreciate your recommendations.

Thank you in advance!

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I dislike applying the adjective "Best" to anything (except J.S. Bach and The Band ;-), but I’m with ya George. Hearing my first ESL’s was a game changer: the Infinity Servo-Static I and 2000A, the ESS Trans-Static I (a pair of which I now own), the RTR ESL6, the Fulton Model J (which I bought new), and finally the original Quad (also now owned). Cones were dead to me. Then The Magneplanar Tympani---finally, life-size instruments and image height! Plus cut-from-the-same-cloth timbre reproduction, and very low coloration. Not as transparent as ESL’s, but ya can’t have it all.

There is a loudspeaker available now with the widest-band planar driver I know of---the Eminent Technology LFT-8b. The dual-LFT magnetic-planar drivers (a push-pull design) cover 180Hz to 10kHz, with NO crossover! A ribbon tweeter comes in for the top octave, and an 8" dynamic woofer in a sealed enclosure does 180Hz down. With a pair of real good subs (Rythmik, the OB/Dipole model if you’re very serious) added, you have a killer budget system for under $5,000 total.


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