Yamaha NS 5000 has more advanced technology than any of those on your list. Strongly urge you to hear them before deciding. We were on our way to buy Magico in southern California but stopped to hear the Yamahas for giggles. Bought them. Much larger company with diversified tech resources boutique high end cannot match. Run the numbers.
$35000 to $40,000. speakers what would you buy and why?
I am contemplating purchasing my End game speakers. The ones that catch my eye are the Magico M3, Magico M project, Stenheim Alumine 5se, Rockport Cygnus and the Songs Faber Amati Homage G5. My system consists of An Aurender N20 feeding a MSB Technology Premier Dac with Premier powerbaye. Preamp duties are handles by An Audio Research Reference Anniversary and amplification is a pair of Lamm M 2.2 mono blocks. I currently have Magnepan 3.7i's. I love their transparency and inner detail but they do not play in the low registers. I do not want separate subs.... My room is mediums sized. I listen to mostly soft pop, classical and some light rock. I am trying to walk the thin line of tranparency vs musicality. I would enjoy some suggestions and some sound reasoning behind members choices in speakers. I do not want this to morph into a bashing thread. Please stay on topic.
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Ulfberht tekton beryllium model at that price you can buy that bonnivilles 4 feet wide 4x woofers 7 horns and the ulfberht. Or buy 2 ulfberrhts with 2x 15 inch woofers pattened array of mids x14 and tweeter. If you like ribbon tweet you can through that in as well. You can ask for high end caps or external dsp. I have alot of reference speakers and still think my tektons are fantastic. Call tekton tell him what you want and he will build it. Enjoy the hunt. You could fly into provo utah and listen. |
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I would recommend you keep your Magnepans and challenge your stance on subs by acquiring them. Otherwise you give yourself a rather convenient "getaway" from the Mag's that makes me wonder if it's really about their lack of LF-prowess and something else instead; maybe you just want something new/other, which is perfectly alright in this endeavor of ours. Just trying to get a bearing at where you're coming from. Why don't you want subs? Should you want to give it a go with subs nonetheless, the stacked approach (i.e.: two sub towers with 3 subs each) advocated by REL in particular could be an great choice with your existing mains and how to augment them smoothly into the lower octaves - with benefits other than bass alone. From my chair that build upon what you cherish already and turn it into something much more complete. Otherwise you're reshuffling the cards entirely with new mains that try to do it all (in addition to the hassle of finding the ones you like), but likely with more severe compromises - one way and the other.
Do the hard work now with above subs recommendation and keep your Magnepans for a dynamite combo. If not now you'll just be faced with the challenge further down road eventually. Trying to put myself in your place at least that's what I would do. What I would do with my own set-up for me only is hardly relevant, but I would go with subs, not skimp on physics and choose main speakers with more narrow/controlled dispersive characteristics. |
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