I would strongly suggest you give up a bit of efficiency and go with a sealed box design. Ported small box designs, especially, IMO should be avoided. You could check out ATC to see what they offer.
Bookshelf Bake Off
Fellow Audiogoners,
Lend me your ears. I live on a farm in South Georgia and have a 3+ hour drive in any direction to audition anything. The price I pay for land, peace and horses I suppose. I am putting together a secondary system and can't audition everything I have interest in, so I am hoping you can help me shorten the short list to a manageable set of maybe three (two would be even better) auditions for bookshelf speakers. They will be driven by 2 x PS Audio M700 Monoblocks, Schiit Freya+ tube preamp and a Mytek Brooklyn DAC+. The space is fairly small at approx. 10'x20'. For a number of reasons, floorstanders are not a possibility, hence the call for bookshelf speakers. I would like to keep the budget in the $2K range, +/- a reasonable %. I am not someone that feels the need to max the budget, i.e. linear correlation of price and quality, so feel free to suggest high value brands/models less than the max budget. I have a pair of Focal Aria 906 in another system and very much like their sound, but want something a bit warmer with similar (or better) resolution. Deeper low frequency extension would be a plus. The brands I have narrowed the field to are:
Revel
Legacy
KEF
Monitor Audio
Sonus Fabre
PSB
This list is not written in stone, just my initial list after research. Feel free to suggest anything I have omitted that warrants consideration. Thanks in advance for your ears.
Mark
Lend me your ears. I live on a farm in South Georgia and have a 3+ hour drive in any direction to audition anything. The price I pay for land, peace and horses I suppose. I am putting together a secondary system and can't audition everything I have interest in, so I am hoping you can help me shorten the short list to a manageable set of maybe three (two would be even better) auditions for bookshelf speakers. They will be driven by 2 x PS Audio M700 Monoblocks, Schiit Freya+ tube preamp and a Mytek Brooklyn DAC+. The space is fairly small at approx. 10'x20'. For a number of reasons, floorstanders are not a possibility, hence the call for bookshelf speakers. I would like to keep the budget in the $2K range, +/- a reasonable %. I am not someone that feels the need to max the budget, i.e. linear correlation of price and quality, so feel free to suggest high value brands/models less than the max budget. I have a pair of Focal Aria 906 in another system and very much like their sound, but want something a bit warmer with similar (or better) resolution. Deeper low frequency extension would be a plus. The brands I have narrowed the field to are:
Revel
Legacy
KEF
Monitor Audio
Sonus Fabre
PSB
This list is not written in stone, just my initial list after research. Feel free to suggest anything I have omitted that warrants consideration. Thanks in advance for your ears.
Mark
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You might want to give Buchardt audio a try with their S400 model. You can try in your home for 30 days and if you don't like it they will pay the shipping back. Anyway, you can look at their website: https://www.buchardtaudio.com/ for more details. |
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