There are some Joseph Audio Pulsar 2 Graphene speakers on USAM for $7400 CAD (about $5400 USD). I can’t believe they are still there. You would want them closer to your listening position. This leaves you some budget to put towards an upgrade from the Rotel. A couple of people have mentioned KEF Reference 1. Those are good, I owned a pair. The Pulsars are better. I've heard them and the Reference 1 in my friend's system and the Pulsars are more detailed and image better.
Speakers for room size that provide greater detail.
I’m looking at replacing my Wharfedale Super Lintons. The room size is 24’ length, and 14’ wide. Ceilings are 12’. My current listening distance is 15’ from my speakers. I have 2 Rel Classic 99 subs, running through a Rotel RA1592. Used for only playing music.
Want a speaker that is resolving at lower and loud volumes. Speakers that are more resolving than the Super Lintons at louder the volumes specifically. I am currently looking at the Kef R11 Meta, Kef Reference 1 Meta and Wharfedale Elysian 2. I would prefer a stand mount speaker. But open to a floor standing. Besides the speakers I’ve mentioned looking for other recommendations that I can read up on and demo in person. Thanks in advance.
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I agree with @ravimaui. I have the same size room but 17 ft ceilings. I had Maggie 1.7s for years. I tried replacing them but was extremely disappointed with any box speaker i tried. Im currently using TAD E1's which are out of your price range. Those do a pretty good job. There is a pait of used YG Carmel2's that are in your budget if you are looking for something more compact than maggies. |
lots of comments already my 2 cents -- wharfdale lintons are not resolving (nor engaging) at all... good for background music in my book, that is about it, not suitable for intent listening -- better kefs proacs (one of my faves) joseph audio can be very good very resolving very engaging traditional box speakers, spendors are quite iffy, they can be all over the map, some expensive recent ones have sounded downright BAD to my ear -- atcs and b&w and focals can be very very good or can be very very bad -- very finicky and hard to match and synergize unless you are quite experienced or have a damn good dealer... not for the faint of heart -- once you do maggies right (proper setup, proper amps, subs) it is VERY hard to go back to a box speaker -- they are just more like the real thing, especially in a medium to large room -- i have had quite bad luck with dynamic open baffle type speakers... tried several (spatials, lil songs, pure audios...) in every case i felt they sounded downright poor, yes they are dynamic and open but there are unseemly distortion artifacts that really bothered me, they don't image right -- i tried and tried and tried and they never sounded remotely correct your mileage may vary
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