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Have some fun with bookshelf monitors!!

This is ANOTHER what speaker should I buy.  But here is the thing.  I might have a speaker problem......

I currently own the following speakers:  Dynaudio Evoke 50s (my main room) driven by Prima Luna, Watkins Gen 4 (secondary room) driven by Cary amp, Harbeth P3ESR (office) driven by retro Grant Fidelity tube amp, and Wharfedale Evo 4.2 (home theater) driven by an NAD AVR.  If you ask my wife that's about seven too many speakers.

BUT

I have a new large room, lots of glass, 10' ceilings, and have to use an NAD 3050 amplifier.  Speakers have to sit on a bookshelf, have a wood or white finish, and most importantly be interesting!

SO...

with a $5,000 top end (and goal to be half of that) tell me what you buy.

 

twhitezzz

Showing 1 response by agwca

agwca
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Well, given your constraints "Speakers have to sit on a bookshelf, have a wood or white finish, and most importantly be interesting!", you could do 1 of 2 things.

1: Buy a speaker designed to be both near a wall and on a bookshelf, Ex. (some Dali models among others) and make them better sounding with X/O upgrades and add a nice wood veneer or 

2)  Buy a nice speaker with interesting characteristics and place them on a stand. 

I have Audel Magika II using good drivers in a nice layered birch plywood cabinet.  I also looked at Xavian, Penaudio, Fischer & Fischer, Audio Revival, Fritz among a few others.  

I do not think any of my choices would perform best placed on a bookshelf but some of the companies offer really small monitors, new or discontinued which could work out well.  

 

 

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