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Bookshelf speaker recommendations

I am in the need for some recommendation for bookshelf speakers in a small room(10x10). I currently have the Paradigm Mini Monitor v3 and for the price are good sounding speakers but they are way too midbass heavy like boxy sounding. A few options I was looking was the Dynaudio Audience 42 or 52 or even the Contour 1.1. I listening to everything but mostly rock and country. Every once in a while I like listening to vocals and acoustic instruments.

This will be powered by an Acurus A150 amplifier with a Rotel RC-995 preamp. My source is strictly lossless files and some streaming. 

My budget is around 1.2k.

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helomech
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Keep a look out for a pair of pre-owned Tyler Acoustics Taylo Reference or Tyler Linbrook monitors. These are equipped with parts and drivers normally only found in >/= $8K/pair speakers. I recently bought an early 2000s pair of Taylo Refs that came with the upgraded Seas Excel (gold ring) tweeter for a mere $600. From about 60Hz on up, they are quite easily the best monitors/bookshelf speakers I’ve owned and among the best I’ve auditioned at any price. They will easily walk all over some of the $6K/pair dealer-sold bookshelf speakers and compete well against speakers like the B&W 805 D4s. 

Pretty much any brand new box store/dealer-sold speakers under $2K/pair sound like distortion machines relative to the aforementioned Tyler speakers. 

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