Help! Apogee Centaur Major or Quad 998?


Hello all

I am in the final phase of selecting speakers for my budget system. Tough choice!
My music style is voice, instrumental/classical and oldies, Not too loud listening.

I appreciate your feedback on the speakers and the equipments.

1. Apogee speaker and Marsh 400s and 2000 preamp (seller's setup).
Or
2. Quad 998 and Quad mono and preamp (cost little more but they are newer equipments so I have more time to enjoy rather than sending them for repair if it breakdown)

Thanks for your feedback.
Young


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Showing 1 response by lostbears



 I would not choose either of these two speakers at this point. They are just too old. Getting either fixed would be very difficult. If I had to choose an old planar type speaker, It would be a Martin Logan SL3. Getting parts would be much easier if there is a problem. The SL3 is also an excellent sounding speaker especially for what you can buy a pair for.

 I owned  Apogee Centaur Major back in the early 1990's and they were nice speakers. The Slant 6 I thought were a bit better and played louder. The SL3s I owned later were better sounding than both. I might also consider a pair of older Magnepan speakers.