Better than Usher Dancer Mini-X DMD?

Since I first posted this I've made a few changes in my system. Upgraded my preamp to a Violectric V281 preamp/headphone amp and added better interconnects and power cables. Very pleased overall with the sound. As far as the speakers go, I've done a little research and it seems my Ushers are considered to be great cabinets, good drivers but less than optimal internals. Thinking about crossover upgrades and upgrading the internal wiring. One other speaker I considered when I bought these was the Canton Reference 9k stand mounts. At the time Canton's presence in the USA was in doubt but that has been settled apparently. Does anyone have any experience with these. Sounds like build quality is out of this world. Of course I kind of think that about my current speakers as well. One concern I have is the Canton is rear ported and the fact that I'm less than a foot from my speaker to the back wall makes me wonder if I should rule this out, and for that matter rule out all rear ported speakers. Opinions?

Keep the mini-x’s, better than the Focal or dynaudio mentioned above IMO. You can’t compare the mini-x to the 718’s from the past unless the 718’s had the DMD tweeter which is a game changer. I have and still own many Usher speakers, the later 1’s with the DMD tweeter. I have the Usher x-towers which is a $14k floorstand speaker consisting of the mini-x plus the woofer modules with their Eaton 11" woofer. Before this I owned the Mini Dancer ii’s with the DMD tweeter and other Usher Dancer series speakers with their silk dome tweeters. I just moved to a new house with a 16’ x 13’ room and will be using the mini-x speakers without the woofer modules if I put them on the long wall or will use them with the woofer modules if I put them on the short wall. I had the top of the line Totem speakers before going to usher and they were also very nice speakers.

As for ported speakers, I like front ported speakers so they are more room friendly. You can still plug the ports to fine tune them.

Sorry rb, it was only today I noticed your response to my post. Thanks for your input. From what I can tell it would be well worth the effort to replace the internal wiring and silver solder them in rather than using the push on connectors. I think upgrading the binding posts at the same time will be a good idea. After that perhaps I will use these as my endgame speakers for my small room. Thanks again

I recently purchased a set of usher mini-x. I drive them with a naim supernait 3 + denafrips pontus II DAC.

To my ears the mids and heights sound great, detailed, a huge improvement over my previous speakers (B&W CM5 S2). These speakers sound a bit "holographic" as they say. 

What I feel is the lack of low frequencies --> Basically these speakers lack the bass compared with the B&W on the same DAC and AMP.

I don't want to have huge bass levels, and I don't really want to add a subwoofer --> I just need to have some "normal" bass that usual bookshelf speakers can provide. 

I believe that my integrated AMP naim supernait 3 is not powerful enough to drive these speakers and I was looking for an upgrade (or maybe these speakers lack the bass whatever amp you use).

Any advice on this would be great. 

 

 

 

If you want more bass, move the speakers closer to the front wall.