I debated the same issue when it came tiem to purchase speakers. For me the most sonically annoying aspect of any system is bass boom and bass sloppiness. With a monior and sub (preferably subS) combo I can place the monitors in their ideal location in terms of transparency and soundstaging and place the subs in ideal ocations thrpughout my room and tune the bass to my liking. With the floorstander you have no such option in terms of bass tuning. The closest I have seen is speakers like Meadowlark who have different crossovers built into the speaker, one for lower bass one for more. I think Vandersteen does the same type of thing in the Vandy 5. However these speakers cost upward of 6k (estimating). My monitors cost 2k used and use better drivers (if that matters to your ears) and has the flexible placement properties mentioned earlier. Besides I can actually live in the room with my Dyn 1.3se rather than build a room for a set of comparable floorstanders.
Pro/Con Floorstanding VS Monitor, which's better?
If both speakers have the same design, i.e MTM or any one tweeter and 2 mid subs, what is the benefit of the floorstanding over monitor speakers (so except for the cabinet, everything else is the same)?
I would think that a floorstander would go a bit deeper, but not sure if that's correct.
Also which one should be a better speaker, over all?
thanks,
Ake
I would think that a floorstander would go a bit deeper, but not sure if that's correct.
Also which one should be a better speaker, over all?
thanks,
Ake