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Mini Monitors - Dynaudio and JM Labs

After 11 years with my Thiel CS22 floorstanders, I’m ready to make a change and have decided to try out some mini monitors because of room size 15’x17’x7.5’ and the fact that I have a REL Stadium III to take care of the low end. I’ve narrowed my search down to two brands, Dynaudio and JM Labs. I’m looking at the Micro Utopia Be and either to the three Dynaudio models, Confidence C1, Special 25, or Contour 1.3SE.

I listen to pretty much all types of music but the majority being Jazz, Rock, and Alternative. One thing about the Thiel’s that I have always had a difficult time dealing with was that the listening position was extremely critical. The way that I have my speakers positioned, only one person at a time could truly enjoy the music from my Thiel’s. I’m hoping that I can improve my predicament with the speakers listed above as well as moving a step up in the quest for the absolute sound. I believe I have plenty of power to drive any of the speaker listed. A list of my associated equipment is listed “my system”.

Please, your recommendations or comments are welcome if you have compared or owned any speakers listed above.
islandflyfisher

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branimir
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I own Dynaudio Special 25s with Dynaudio Stand4. My room is almost the same dimensions as yours... Sound: Very deep and tight bass for standmount speaker( in-room to ca.25Hz!), natural midrange and extended highs. Rest of the system is ARC VT100MkIII/REF1MkII and Esoteric DV50s.
ARC tube combo is doing nice job in taming some forwardness in treble. Special 25 is not very hard to drive-I previously owned ARC VT50 and it drove it without any problems. Confidence C1 is little bit more refined sounding but, without bass capabilities of Special 25.
Also, IMO sub is something like a diversion on coherence provided by these models. I tried REL Storm 5 and it didn't blend well...
branimir
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Islandflyfisher-My Special 25s are almost 8feet apart and I am seating 9.5feet from them. They are toe-in to cross in distant 15feet position(4.5feet behind my head). Speakers are 2.5feet from wall behind them(bass has perfect combination of depth/tightness for speaker of this size in that position). Size of the 'sweet spot' is good-two people could hear almost the same sound.
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