If you can stretch your budget a bit there are a used pair of Revel F228be towers in mahogany on Audiogon currently for $5900. Retail at $10k, beryllium tweeters, redesigned crossovers and a bump in efficiency to 90db. Worth taking a look.
$5k Pair Full Range Speaker Shootout - Help me pick
Hi Guys,
Around the holidays I will be purchasing a pair of (roughly) $5k/pair full range stereo speakers for use in a 2-channel only system. My current JBL Synthesis HDI-1600’s will be accompanied by the matching HDI-4500 Center Speaker and likely an Arcam AVR30 and used exclusively for Home Theater use.
Here’s what I’m currently considering for the 2-Ch speakers. If you all could relay any experiences or impressions you’ve had with these specific speakers, or speakers in their range, it would surely help me make the right choice. I know a lot of people say "I listen to all genre’s", but I truly do have an enormous digital music collection that spans all genre’s. Everything from current EDM and Pop to High Res Classical, Audiophile tester type selections, every one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s top 500 albums of all time in FLAC (classic rock and funk heavy), etc. I like to put all of this content on shuffle and just listen to whatever happens.
2-ch system will continue to be powered as follows:
Digital - Foobar2000 --> SMSL SU-8 v2 --> Classe CAP-151
Analog - Technics SL1300mkII --> Ortofon 2M Red --> NAD PP-3 --> Classe CAP151
The speaker choices:
JBL L100 Classic
https://ibb.co/yhjJHn1
Revel Performa F208
https://ibb.co/TK4PNBD
B&W 702 S2
https://ibb.co/D4qPFcH
Around the holidays I will be purchasing a pair of (roughly) $5k/pair full range stereo speakers for use in a 2-channel only system. My current JBL Synthesis HDI-1600’s will be accompanied by the matching HDI-4500 Center Speaker and likely an Arcam AVR30 and used exclusively for Home Theater use.
Here’s what I’m currently considering for the 2-Ch speakers. If you all could relay any experiences or impressions you’ve had with these specific speakers, or speakers in their range, it would surely help me make the right choice. I know a lot of people say "I listen to all genre’s", but I truly do have an enormous digital music collection that spans all genre’s. Everything from current EDM and Pop to High Res Classical, Audiophile tester type selections, every one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s top 500 albums of all time in FLAC (classic rock and funk heavy), etc. I like to put all of this content on shuffle and just listen to whatever happens.
2-ch system will continue to be powered as follows:
Digital - Foobar2000 --> SMSL SU-8 v2 --> Classe CAP-151
Analog - Technics SL1300mkII --> Ortofon 2M Red --> NAD PP-3 --> Classe CAP151
The speaker choices:
JBL L100 Classic
https://ibb.co/yhjJHn1
Revel Performa F208
https://ibb.co/TK4PNBD
B&W 702 S2
https://ibb.co/D4qPFcH