I have heard the Sabrina and liked it a lot but it sounds like you're happy. You have a nice system. i have mine in the living room also. I think we want it to sound like the dedicated, treated rooms at the audio stores but it may not be realistic. I don't think my wife is going for acoustic treatments in the living room.
Sonus Faber Olympica II Speakers vs. something else?
I visited my retailer recently and asked some questions about my Aurender N10 I purchased from them. During the conversation, they recommended I listen to the Wilson Audio Sabrina speaker as a replacement for the Sonus Faber Olympica II speakers. I have listened to various Wilson Audio speakers before and did not like the way they sounded. I have not heard the Sabrina and probably should (maybe).
My friend suggests the PMC twenty .26 speaker (he owns them) is an excellent replacement for my Sonus Faber speakers. He claims the "PMC speaker does what it supposed to do by faithfully reproducing the input signal regardless of genre of music. He feels the PMC .26 is very musical and sounds natural".
While I am not unhappy with my Sonus Faber Olympica II Speakers, it might be interesting to hear the speakers mentioned above, or maybe some other speaker options. My speakers are in my living room and any new speaker needs to be approximately the same size as my Sonus Faber Olympica II Speakers (41.5” high, 14.5” wide and 17” deep. Since my wife needs to approve the size, I am trying to keep the same speaker size I already have (approximately).
My system includes the Aurender N10 Music Server, the Bricasti M1 SE DAC and Hypex NCore NC400 Bridged Mono Block class D Power Amplifiers. I am not using a preamplifier since the Bricasti DAC is going direct to my Hypex NCore power amplifiers. All connections are using James Romeyn Pure Balanced POWer Fully Balanced Interconnect cables with Cardas Rhodium XLR Connectors.
Do you have any comments regarding the speakers mentioned above or any suggestions of speakers I should listen to? Thanks.
My friend suggests the PMC twenty .26 speaker (he owns them) is an excellent replacement for my Sonus Faber speakers. He claims the "PMC speaker does what it supposed to do by faithfully reproducing the input signal regardless of genre of music. He feels the PMC .26 is very musical and sounds natural".
While I am not unhappy with my Sonus Faber Olympica II Speakers, it might be interesting to hear the speakers mentioned above, or maybe some other speaker options. My speakers are in my living room and any new speaker needs to be approximately the same size as my Sonus Faber Olympica II Speakers (41.5” high, 14.5” wide and 17” deep. Since my wife needs to approve the size, I am trying to keep the same speaker size I already have (approximately).
My system includes the Aurender N10 Music Server, the Bricasti M1 SE DAC and Hypex NCore NC400 Bridged Mono Block class D Power Amplifiers. I am not using a preamplifier since the Bricasti DAC is going direct to my Hypex NCore power amplifiers. All connections are using James Romeyn Pure Balanced POWer Fully Balanced Interconnect cables with Cardas Rhodium XLR Connectors.
Do you have any comments regarding the speakers mentioned above or any suggestions of speakers I should listen to? Thanks.
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