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Dynaudio Evoke or Focal Aria Or Paradigm Prestige

Hello,

First time poster here. I live in Canada. I want to upgrade my speakers. Here are some info about what I have. My room is 14 feet by 13 feet but not fully closed. I listen to movies/ TV series (75 %) and music on vinyl (25 %). I have a Thorens TD 166, my AV receiver is a Yamaha RX-A1060 Adventage and my subwoofer is a Paradigm Monitor 7 (sub 8). As you can read, nothing very high end. After reading for months and dreaming about expensive wants, I have narrow it down to 3 brands that fits the budget. What are your thoughts on Dynaudio Evoke and Focal Aria ? If i go with Dynaudio, should I choose Evoke 10 and 30 OR 20 and 30 OR 20 and 50 ? If I go Focal Aria, for front speakers : 926 or 936 or 948 ? For back speakers, Aria 906 or SR 900 ? I also included Paradigm Prestige in the discussion because it is canadian built, but is it better than Focal or Dynaudio ? If you have other suggestions, i am open, but remember the size of my room and I live in Canada. Thanks a lot in advance.
bendogo

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b_limo
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@bendogo, you sound a bit confused...  

You can use your current receiver as just the pre-amp (volume control) and the processor (surround sound) and buy a better amp(power) like the Anthem suggested. 
My advice would be to come to the darkside.  Scrap the receivers life and come to high end 2 channel audio.  Whatever you were planning on spending on 2 towers and a center channel, but 2 speakers and a nice, beefy 2 channel integrated amp.  With 2 properly set up speakers, you need no center channel.  
If your budget is $2500, you could get a really nice pair of used speakers and a nice 2 channel integrated amp.  Just a thought!  
Dynaudio, Paradigm and Focal are all great companies!  The descriptions given above of how they sound is accurate.

Being Canadian, Paradigm with Anthem might be cool!
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b_limo
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My opinion of the Prestige is that they are in deed nice!  I’ve had a ton of Paradigm Speakers.  The Paradigms are prettier than Totems, but I prefer the sound of Totem over Paradigm, unless we are taking Sig 8 V2, Tributes or Personas...

For $1500 you can get a pair of used Totem Hawks and for $2000-$2500 you can get a pair of Totem Mani’s.


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