Best Bookshelf Speakers


I just blew a driver in one of my bookshelf speakers. I am driving them with an inexpensive reciever. I am looking for a recommendation for replacement speakers. Price NEW must be $1,000 or less. Thanks for the help!
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Showing 4 responses by carl_eber

Norwex B-2 Nisse's are great; I'm trying these out right now. I'm writing a review of them, and they've been reviewed several other places on the net. I feel their performance is likely impaired/wasted on a bookshelf, however...these sound magnificent 38 inches out from the back wall, on 29 inch sand damped/spiked speaker stands in my small room, with my Rogue Model 88 amplifier in triode mode (at only 30 wpc in my fully treated smaller room, they can do 90db peaks with music at a listening distance of around 6.5 feet!!!!!)
I've not heard the Coincident. I'll check for the reviews, but it seems like you could find them just as quickly as I could. I'll not read any of them until I have written my review (however, I will read them before I post my review, so that I can compare/contrast my personal findings with theirs).
I was planning on audioreview.com, and perhaps here, besides possibly one or two other places. This is a favor I am doing at the manufacturer's request. In mentioning these above, I did not mean to presume that they are "the best bookshelf speaker". I've not heard many booksehlf speakers at my home, and only own one bookshelf speaker myself. If I were to undertake a comparitive review of a lot of different small monitor speakers, that would take forever, becuase there are just too many of them. All I can do is try these, and give my detailed opinion, which is all any reviewer ever really does anyway (except unless they also have a decent methodology for publishing lab measurements, like SPHL...but I can't do that).
You mean the search for a grand unified theory of Quantum Mechanics? I don't know if that's the central mystery, but if you're so interested in it, you might want to e-mail Stephen Hawking, or some other prominant theoretical physicist. I'm no expert on that, nor am I a physicist....BUT THEN, YOU WERE BEING SARCASTIC, AND WE ALL KNOW IT, DON'T WE? Go pick on somebody your own size, and keep it on audio, or you'll be gone from here like the rest have (unless of course you already have been, and have returned under a different moniker).........................To sum up, you have singled me out in a personal manner, and this is quite against Audiogon's rules. Why don't YOU tell me something about AUDIO that I don't already know?.....(since that's the "central mystery" of why I'm hear, i.e., to learn what I don't already know about audio, and to share experiences for the give and take of that learning). I have a great-aunt named Merle, but somehow I doubt it's you auntie...