steve59
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| $3500 floor standing speakers used. What would be your choice ? The Dynaudio Contour 30or 30i can be found for close to $3500 and besides delivering great sound quality they look great. I’m considering a pair to replace my +20 year old VA Beethovens. | |
| Speakers for low level listening Those old Yamaha int's with adjustable loudness contour | |
| KEF Blade or Blade 2 I don't doubt all the variables that draw us to a speaker apply to the Blades also and while the Ref 5 look pretty conventional and dated for a 2025 sota design, I don't doubt they'll look and sound better in specific set ups. My listening room ha... | |
| KEF Blade or Blade 2 I'm still on the couch waiting for my injury to heal and have little better to do than stalk forum threads. IDK if the above is considered cheap or what, but it's all I could find for the blade Xover. | |
| KEF Blade or Blade 2 | |
| Did I Expect too much? sns 3,561 posts 03-30-2025 at 01:14pm @steve59 I don't think need for value is the culprit here, need to keep cost of device lower and/or extract max profit margiins culprit for the labor cost part of equation.... | |
| Did I Expect too much? Our need for value has the bigger companies outsourcing to sweat shops to manage costs. There's also companies that invest in themselves, Dynaudio, KEF, Paradigm to name a few that do everything in house that has the benefit of controlling markup,... | |
| Speakers sound too bright. I've pulled some speakers 5' away from any reflective surface to bring the high fq's down. Local dealers use panels like Vicoustics or other brand panels to aid in placement, and tone controls will help attenuate hard sounds in reflective rooms, b... | |
| speaker upgrade from Magico A3 The local SF dealer near me carries the more affordable speakers and says the that the tweeter isn't as well integrated as what we would typically expect from the company. You do have a large room and the amount of reflecting surfaces will directl... | |
| Vienna Acoustics 'The Music' The Beethovens play clean to 95 db or so from the listening chair, loud enough for all but rock concert levels | |
| Vienna Acoustics 'The Music' I found a used pair that I was ready to investigate until a motorcycle collision sidelined me last november. I still have another foot surgery on the books and Dr orders to keep said foot elevated for as long as they keep working to save it(I wrot... | |
| How long should high quality speakers last? If you're not buying them out of the back of a white van legit brands will last as long as we use them within their designed purpose. | |
| I am sad I had a pair of speakers that were sensitive to source, the kef R105/3 with kube. I finally found an amp krell kav300il integrated that smoothed the rough edges in the upper mids/treble. Even with a 2nd power amp driving the woofers the krell woul... | |
| Are Merlin TSM speakers buried with their owners? I've never gotten to listen to the Merlin stand mounts, but was told that played within their limits they were hard to beat. | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? pearl jam last fall at wrigley field. |