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Help building new system: devore, verity or Sonus?

I'm getting a dedicated room for my gear, but the room is tiny, at 11.5' by 11.5' with about 9.5' ceiling.

I've been listening and reading up on a lot of speakers and the one's I'm most curious about are Devore Fidelity's The Nines or Super 8s, Verity Audio Finn (possibly Rienzi) and the Sonus Faber Liuto.

My current system is a McIntosh MA6600 with Dali MS4 Euphonia's, Clearaudio Turntable, and MHDT DAC with Mac Mini and Denon 3910, and Harmonic Tech. cables. I listen to folk, singer-songwriter, jazz, classical, female vocals, classic and indie rock, as well as solo guitar work. I Prefer smaller scale groups and intimate recordings.

My previous experience with the Dali's in a small room makes me feel they will be too much. I will treat the room as best I can, but WAF is a big issue.

I want to build my system around my speakers, and am in the NYC area, so can demo a lot. I'd prefer to buy from a dealer probably. I am looking to build a system that is very natural sounding and has some life and emotion to it, with no listener fatigue. I like: nice, taut, round bass that isn't boomy, muddy, or over-pronounced; sweet highs that are neither syrupy nor hyper-detailed and analytical; lush but not over-romantic mids.

I'd like to spend under $7,000 on the speakers. What do you guys think about the McIntosh with the speakers I listed? I am happy with the McIntosh, but would consider changing to something else if I found it didn't pair best. It's a small room so don't want anything that runs super hot.

Any other speakers I should try out? Any particular speaker/integrated amp combos you guys love?

Sorry this is so long, and thanks in advance for the help!
brookjoo

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Brookjoo, I have the Super 8's and we have similar
tastes in music. The 8's do very well in small to
medium sized rooms and they only need to be about
two feet from the rear wall. These speakers look
small but they have a lot of musical weight.
They sound great with both tubes and ss gear.

I like to mess around with different integrated
amps. They sound great with my 15 watt Cary 300b SEI
and awfully good with my Naim gear.

With your musical tastes I think you would really love
the Naim gear with the 8's. I have the Naim XS with
the Teddycap. The Teddycap and Naim 12 feet speaker
wire are a must. Combine this with Synergistic Research
Tesla T3 power and other SR products and you can achieve
unbelievable musicality that is rich, detailed and
holographic. Its this musicality that grabs you and
pulls you into the music. You will find yourself listening
to entire albums and not just skipping from song to song.
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