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Efficient speaker: Zu, Tekton, Volti, Klipsch, Fleetwood?

We’re moving and I’m looking for a high-efficiency, high impedance speaker that can fill a very large “great room” with smooth, open, detailed sound, both for serious listening and casual background music. I currently have Devore Super 9s, but those will be going in a separate dedicated listening room. I thought about getting another pair of Devores (maybe the O/93) for the great room because I love this brand, but I’m interested in other possibilities The new speakers will be on either side of a 6-foot TV console, so they’ll need to sound good fairly close to the wall behind them. And they will need to have a reasonably good WAF. They will be played mainly at low-moderate sound levels and our tastes include rock, classical, world music and “spa” type relaxation stuff.

Anyone who is familiar with any of the following candidates, please feel free to sound off. As you can see, price ranges are all over the place:

Zu Soul Supreme

Tekton Lore

Volti Razz

Klipsch Forte IV

Fleetwood Deville

Others?

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fosolitude
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You will find Voltis better than Klipsch

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I just completed a search like yours. I listened to Fyne and Tannoys and didn't like them (others do so make your own judgments), both had bass that semmed too polite. I liked Klipsch, Audio Note and DeVore 96, probably would have been happy with any of them. Better still, I thought, was Volti which is a kind of Klipsch made with better materials. I bought a pair of Charney companions and I don't think I'd have liked any of the others so much as these. I had originally heard them at the Capital Audio Fest three or four years ago and it struck me how real it sounded and how it communicated the emotional aspects of the music. Detail, imaging, palpability and feeling are what I wanted and after spending a fair amount of time auditioning speakers, it turns out I was right the first time.

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