Speakers for a small room


I have recently been changing my system because of moving to a smaller house.

My new room is only 15'6" X 11" 6", not large enough for my Apogees.

Therefore, I have decided to go back to valves and purchased a pair of Jadis 30 watt Mono Blocks.

My Pre is an Audio Research SP 10, I still have Vinyl and Digital sources.

Speakers are my problem, I have an option to by a pair of Sonus Faber Guarneri' or a pair of Cremona Auditor' at trade price. My main concern is that the Guarneri Stands would be to high for near field listening, I would sit approx 8' 0" from the speaker face.

Does anybody have experience of either?
kjgp

Showing 1 response by 213cobra

You don't have enough power to do justice to the Cremona Auditors or the Guarneri. You'll get sound, but both speakers' crossovers just don't get out of the way with modest power. Especially the Guarneri. Zu Druids are full range, dynamic and efficient able to make VERY good use of your Jadis power. They are also quite effective as relatively near-field speakers and yet they are lightly affected by proximity to walls, corners, etc. Tremendous focus, intimacy, yet completely free of the usual fatigue factors.

You can get much of their effect from Zu Tones on good stands -- something like Osiris 24". You'll save a G, but you'll take up the same floor footprint and give up some bottom. Both Tones and Druids are 12 ohm, 101db/w/m.

The Cremona Auditor is very nice -- if you want to commit to that speaker, consider changing amps.

As a conventional alternative to the Auditor, with more bass, consider the Silverline Audio SR17 and SR16. Really well done. But a Zu Druid is really the peak performer here.

Phil