what speaker new or used for 5k?


Looking to upgrade my speakers right now I Have the Vienna Acoustics Mosart Grands. Equipment is the Parasound a21 amp p5 pre amp and Marantz sa8001 sacd and two REL t9 subs. Mosaic speaker cable and Interconnects, in a 16 x 20 room with 7ft drop ceilings.
jughead

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You might consider making a change in amplification before changing speakers. There are higher resolution amps than what the A 21 gives you.

My suggestion is to try to get a few contenders at home for a trial, and see if there are improvements that do it for you.

Regards,

dan
Jughead, Marqmike,

Out of curiosity, and a need to save a bit of cash, I sold a nice First Watt M2 amp, and ordered a Class D Audio CDA 254 amp, in a kit. You can have them build it, or they have complete amps ready to sell.

Anyway, I built the first one, and I was shocked at the quality of sound coming out of my custom-built Tannoy HPD 315 loudspeakers.

I was getting the best bass response I'd heard from my 12" Dual Concentric speakers, with beautiful mids and highs as well. It compared very favorably with my SET 300B amp, but with more power.

I built another one, and ran two amps bridged into mono, making 500 Watts into 8 Ohms. It sounded superb, but an old multi channel amp I was using for center and surrounds went bad, so I converted one of the amps to three channel, just had to add another amp module and input and speaker terminals, with the one unit, there's 125 Wpc for the surrounds, and 500 Watts to the center channel.

Multi-channel music, and tv watching has never sounded this good before.

Along with Marqmike, I recommend you give them a try. I am living very happily with Class D, and the complete kit is only $430, very high quality parts, and made in the USA. It costs an additional $100, I believe, to have them build it for you.

It's something to think about. I think you'd be surprised, I know I sure was.

Best of luck,
Dan