If you must stay with Canadian "speaks", and you are straying towards the PSB line, my experience selling this line with lots of gear is that the PSB Silver I's are a better sounding speaker overall! They are surely less colored and have a more neutral balance. They also seem more extended on top!
infact, back in the mid 90's the Silver's were rated by Sterophile as part of the HT/music "dream system" for it's price range!(mated with the mini's and C6(or 5?) center and PSB STratus sub! But, the Golds will play lower and perhaps a tick louder on their own I suppose. Still, If it were my money, I'd get the Silver I's over the Golds.
If you do like the "warmish" speaker sound, then you might differ. The Paradigms(all of them), PSB gold's, Mirages, and most other Canadian breads are on the warm side of neutral, if it matters to anyone. The B&W's(Brit's) are also a tick warm of neutral, but not so much so, and better overall, but for more money!
On the other hand, if you want to experience better sound for dirt cheap, God's little secret in the audio world is the klipsch SB2 minimonitor and the jolida sj502 integrated tube amp mated together!! Adding a sub and a surround processor only makes it more interesting also!!!
...Get me better sound for HT/music for anywhere near the money and I'll shut up!...
infact, back in the mid 90's the Silver's were rated by Sterophile as part of the HT/music "dream system" for it's price range!(mated with the mini's and C6(or 5?) center and PSB STratus sub! But, the Golds will play lower and perhaps a tick louder on their own I suppose. Still, If it were my money, I'd get the Silver I's over the Golds.
If you do like the "warmish" speaker sound, then you might differ. The Paradigms(all of them), PSB gold's, Mirages, and most other Canadian breads are on the warm side of neutral, if it matters to anyone. The B&W's(Brit's) are also a tick warm of neutral, but not so much so, and better overall, but for more money!
On the other hand, if you want to experience better sound for dirt cheap, God's little secret in the audio world is the klipsch SB2 minimonitor and the jolida sj502 integrated tube amp mated together!! Adding a sub and a surround processor only makes it more interesting also!!!
...Get me better sound for HT/music for anywhere near the money and I'll shut up!...