SMALL, but efficient speaker


To be used with a flea-powered amp and/or a battery-powered integrated, also of limited juice. Single-driver need not apply. I've been down that road and find all I tried to be too BRIGHT and beamy with not enuff balls down low for Deep Purple, Zep and the like. They're OK for light jazz, audiophile crap and chick singers, but that is NOT my bag.

I'll accept a very small floorstander (was thinking Rega R3), or stand mount. Nothing bigger.

Room 10X10, so quite small, by US standards.

Your thoughts, please. Oh, Hawkwind RULES.
lindisfarne

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Klipsch Heresy's will absolutely not go low. I have quite a bit of experience with them and trying to get the most out of them. They're fun speakers, and a great bargain for the money, but they do not do bass well at all. After 50hz they drop like a lemming off a cliff.

Of the small offerings in stand mounted speakers there is Reference 3A DeCapo. I also like the speakers I use, Galante Rhapsody's which use concentric drivers. Neither go real low, but both will have bigger balls in the bottom end than the Klipsch. Galante's Symphony speakers may be a better choice if you are into serious low bass. Klipsch with low bass are the Khorns (in corners) which are not exactly small, Cornwall (II), and the Forte II's and Chorus II's. The later are probably a bit less refined and resolving, but are really fun balls-to-the-wall rock speakers without spending a fortune.

Floorstanders are the way to go if you really want bass with no sub. How low-powered are we talking here? Which amp? What is your budget? Probably should have asked that first.

Marco