I am Looking for That Elusive 3 Dimensional Room Filling Soundstage


I have heard it half a dozen times at home, small room, Primaluna HP Integrated or a Rogue Atlas Magnum II and RP-1 Pre and believe it or not a pair of close to 30 year old Paradigm Export Monitors.

The experience I had, I can only describe as sitting in an aquarium when the litlle rectangular glass aquarium was filled with liquid engulfing you from all directions with no awareness of the speaker boxes...it was just perfect!

The room is approximately 12 x 13 x 9, small bedroom converted to a den!

So the question is what speakers does everyone recommend to provide the same experience?? I have a budget of $2000 for the next little babies so let’s not talk about Focal uber expensive stand mounts at $9500 thank you!

Monitor not floor standers and the Primaluna is gone, it’s all Rogue And yes, I would consider a pair of floor standers that are not to intrusive.
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Showing 1 response by yyzsantabarbara

For my identically sized room the only speaker that comes close to your price that I am considering is an used Thiel 2.7. You can only get them used and they are hard to find now. The only one available for sale I see right now is up in Canada for $3300 USD. Company is out of business and there is the danger of driver replacement not being possible (need to research that).

I have about 5 speakers that I am considering at higher price points for my identical room. One is the KEF Reference 1 which is around $5K used. The new KEF R series is supposed to be similar to the Reference line and is around your price requirement brand new. I am using the KEF LS50’s right now and the R series is supposed to be much better than the LS50’s.

https://us.kef.com/speakers/hi-fi-speakers/rseries-2018.html

Oops, my mistake the R series is priced per SINGLE speaker so add $1000 MRSP to around $3K (new).

The ELAC speakers are likely similar to the KEF’s though I have not heard the latest, just the ones from 2 years ago. Which was very good.