Fun, small footprint, floor standers


Anyone have any suggestions for a "fun" to listen to, small foorprint (think PSB Alpha, or Monitor Audio RS6), floorstander?
mjmch2003
I keep looking for speakers to replace my Preludes (for no reason, and much more money), and I can't do it. Although opinions vary, I think putting great gear in front of these can, and does for me anyway, work very well. I have these on little butcher blocks and Vibrapods (seriously...Vibrapods...) which raises them up maybe 4 inches, and I use an old REL Q150e and a tube amp with them. Absolutely great sounding combination in my room anyway, and I like tweeters with little screens on them for finger poke protection. Something about the small baffle mini monitor presentation of these maybe has something to do with their astounding imaging, but they kick ass....also Alan Yun personally told me to single wire these for "proper coherence" (his words). He was right of course.
AKG, I have both Rega RS-3 and Silverline Preludes.
While the RS-3 is a fine, neutral speaker, the Preludes are FAR better.
Another +1 on the Proac D15. I heard them a few years ago and loved them. I don't remember what came up but I ended up not buying them. I regretted it until I ended up with a pair of Proac Response D2 monitors (for a smaller room). Those D15 sounded wonderful, never got that sound out of my head and wish I'd bought them.
The Prelude Plus is pretty dissimilar to the Prelude...no metal woofers, no screen on the soft dome tweeter (maybe I worry about that too much, but still...), although I bet they sound great. I would like to get my regular Preludes covered in striped ebony veneer...maybe my local high school wood shop!