I would recommend Sonus Faber… buy used… so you can get something like Olympica 3… you will be astonished at the wonderful natural, musical sound with detail over your old speakers.
Needing to replace thirty year old speakers.
I have a thirty year old pair of Canton ergo 80 speakers. I
never felt they were that good. My current system includes
a Chronus magnum dark integrated amplifier, a Cambridge
audio can v2 streamer and two Svs 2000 pro subs. The
Chronic dark replaced an Adcom 555-2 amplifier and an
Adcom 565 preamplifier. I always thought the Adcom
equipment sounded harsh in the upper midrange. The
Chronic solved that problem. It is better than the Adcom
equipment in every way. I like speakers that are slightly
warm sounding but still give detail. My budget is around
$5,000, maybe a little more. What speakers would sound
good with my setup? If a recommended speaker allowed
Me to delete the subs, my wife would be happy 😊
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https://atc.audio/hi-fi/loudspeakers/entry-series/scm40/ New 8K. Used $5,500-6K. Used pair on Ebay. Subs not needed, Gaia footers strongly recommended. Rogue will drive these. Sealed design gives great control of bass/midbass. Midrange to die for, not aggressive. Owned the active version, traded up to ATC 50A, different animal for a whole lot more shekels. Speaker is chameleon with upstream upgrades. They will tell you, and reflect changes. Some claim a brightness with ATC. They only reflect what is wrong upstream. Once dialed in they are quite dynamic and engaging. Good hunting. |
If you can stretch a bit, and as you apparently only buy speakers every few decades or so I think it’s warranted here, I’d highly recommend the ProAc D20 and Joseph Audio Profile. Both are neutral and nicely detailed yet very natural sounding and should pair nicely with your amp, and if you value things like an expansive 3D soundstage and disappearing as a sound source they are both outstanding. Best of luck. |
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