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Looking for speaker recommendations

I am trading in my PMC Twenty5.26’s and looking for new speakers. My room is 15 ft. L x 12 ft. W with a 8 ft. ceiling. The speakers will be driven by Metaxas Solitaire monoblocks and a Devialet 200 pre-amp. Some speakers that I can get in my price range are:
B&W 804 D3
Legacy Audio Signature SE
Paradigm Persona F3
Vivid Audio B1
Joseph Audio Perspectives
Dynaudio Contour 60
Magico A3
I am looking for a greater soundstage and bottom end slam while maintaining the clarity of the PMC’s. I listened to the B&W’s and Paradigms and preferred the B&W’s. Not sure if any of the other speakers would be too much for my room or not? Any comments on these speakers would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

darrenmc
itzhak1969
515 posts
 
I would stay away from B&W speakers they can be very nice as beautiful furniture in the leaving room but are awful speakers, extremely unmusical : weak bass,bright mid and edgy highs .
racedoc
80 posts
 
Hi "darrenmc",

in your situation I would check out if a dealer of
Tidal resp. Vimberg is posible to visit. I am sure
you will be impressed by the outstanding sound
quality.
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contrastaudioua
12 posts
 
Contrast audio MONITOR model.

16 Ohm bookshelf model.  Minimal crossover filtering network (Only one capacitor in crossover network).
Tweeter cut frecquency point 10Khz...

mtrot
804 posts
 
At the price of Magico A3, you can look at Legacy Audio Focus SE and Focal Kanta No.3.  Also, used Focal Sopra No. 2.

The Dyn Contour 60 sounded great at RMAF.
As to Vimberg, although their entry level Mino sounded incredible at RMAF, it runs $29k, so that may be out of the running.
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steve59
1,640 posts
 
There's A pair of Revel salon 2's for under $10k and while they need watts seriously 500 per side to come alive and then careful placement. I think the stereophile reviewer had them 7' out and 5' apart! going by memory here, but while they're not plug and play they are a great speaker for the price if you have a dedicated room with little to no risk on the used market.
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