Looking for Speaker Recommendations
Hi,
I am getting a new system and am looking for speaker recommendations. I will have a ma8950 and will, at least initially, be streaming exclusively. Focal and B & W are too bright and fatiguing. Wilson SabrinaX are good except for the price. Any thoughts? Thanks.
outstanding warmer toned speakers without biting treble but plays with lifesize scale and realism, by my experience... bigger current maggies (1.7i and up) bigger harbeths and spendor classics (stay away from d-series), grahams medium to large vandys some proacs there may be some others (salk, tyler, among others with good reputations, but i have not owned them)
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your add’l info is quite helpful... always good to see folks coming here for advice provide ample useful input so we can be more informed to try to help you properly a few additional thoughts - 1. life is short, if wilson sabrina x’s are it for you, you should go for it... why have regrets? 2. not sure how much of your speaker choice is driven by visuals, cosmetics and/or speaker set up constraints, or is it pretty much all about the sound? if the latter, please do not underestimate magnepans, while they look how they do, and demand to be out into the room they play in, they are absolutely superb when done right and provide a magical balance of live presence without attendant treble harshness 3. seems like you are bascailly quite sensitive to modern sizzly treble but still want the visceral impact of a live performance in the rest of the range, along with tonal correctness at good volumes - given this, i do agree with your notion of getting electronics that have tone controls, or the modern version of such, being digital signal processing/equalization - this will allow you to use speakers that are more alive sounding, but shelve down the treble |
yes they were indeed mentioned early on -- op said he didn’t know what bbc heritage speakers are, are all about, how they sound if i were him, i would certainly find out, as these speakers have only given generations of music lovers around the world great pleasure for many years that said, it does seem he has some cosmetic/appearance related considerations, and the best bbc speakers are indeed larger fairly old school boxes... https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/harbeth-40-2-or-spendor-classic-100-or https://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/0302/spendor12.htm https://6moons.com/audioreviews/spendor2/1.html https://highfidelity.pl/@main-1106&lang=en
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