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can forum readers help with advice on speakers ?

I'd like to upgrade my Cambridge Sound works M80 Newton speakers to something a little better and am looking for any suggestions that can be offered by forum members. The listening living room is a medium sized to small room about 11 by 15 by 8 with 2 open doorways to the hall and dining room . I'm using a Jolida tube amp , Marantz CD player and Rega P2 turntable with Bellari phono preamp . The M80's are on heavy oak speaker stands, look beautiful ,and sound pretty good .... but fuzzy at times . I have no room for a subwoofer and would like to stay away from the skinny floor standers if possible . My budget is $1000 and the speakers need to be magnetically shielded as one is close to the television . I'm wondering if the large numbers of smallish speakers that abound are just not going to move enough air with a 5 or 6 inch woofer . It looks like the recent review of the Renaissance speakers in Stereophile magazine would fit the bill but I see 2 really negative reviews have cropped up on the internet by customers. Thanks for any tips
smokeylynx
shoe
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I understand Smokey, I have grandkids too. I tell them to stay home, music is more important, ...ha!

gotta love em!
jaybo
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here's a thought. find a nice pair of large walnut advents. they sound incredible, look great(in a retro kinda way), and are truly classic, even by today's standards.
smokeylynx OP
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Jaybo ;

interesting thought , I bought a pair of late model baby mini advents on ebay and replaced the woofers with some Audax for music in the shop . Not too bad . Then my son gave me back the lame KLH bookshelf 3 ways I bought for him . I put all new drivers in it and got a 3 way crossover from some Baby Advents on eBay . Sounded not too horrible, but after reading online I discovered that the crossover didn't match my new drivers very well esp. ohmwise . That's when I bought the Cambridge Soundworks M80's . My 20 year old Infinity Studio 100 floorstanders had been retired from foam rot and lack of a kit for them , plus they weren't very good to begin with .
I looked online and it sounds like the New Large Advents were the improved version of the Large Advent . Thanks for the suggestion .
smokeylynx OP
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Hey ;
A response to a thread that's five months old !.
Audiogon forumite Jaybo planted a thought in my head with his suggestion of the Large Advent and it sounded intriguing . I did a bunch of research online and it seemed like the concept was right for me . Purchasing them on the auction site was around $400 and up for a clean pair. But , they still are used speakers with some years on them . Then I decided to instead use my old existing Infinity Studio Monitor 100 cabinets and replace all drivers and Xover . The cabinets aren't the nicest looking , but are solid . I bought a pair of Morel 39 tweets and a pair of Morel 10" 1075's at Madisound along with their Leap design and the components for a new crossover . The Infinitys had no padding inside the boxes so I installed the nice foam that Madisound carries. The woofers were on sale for $99 each so for less than $400 I've got just the ticket for my needs and the retrofitted Infinity boxes now sound really fine . Not really too efficient , but nice tone . The next step is to eventually get some 2.0 cu. ft. cabinets built that are a little better looking and move the components inside those . I'm still under my budget limit and have definitely upgraded the sound of my hi-fi . The Cambridge M80's did get better sounding over time so they must have needed a little break=in time but they are redundant now with this new setup. Thanks Jaybo !
jaybo
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you're welcome
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