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New room needs new speakers, I need your help

Hello everyone!

I have a new house and a new acoustically treated room, but it is very small: we are talking roughly 12' by 16'.

I use a pair of Dali Euphonia MS4 and I feel they need a bigger room to shine, the volume I need for them to sound full is just too much for my modest room. I really enjoy accurate timbres and I need a beautiful midrange and midbass, I listen mostly to women vocals and jazz.

I am looking for a pair of speakers that will cost me a maximum of 5K on the used market.

I am very sensitive to fatiguing treble, I don't look for absolute treble clarity, I love an easy listening speaker.

My ideal speaker would be the PMC IB2SE which I auditioned extensively, but sadly it is out of my budget.

 

I am open to your suggestions!

 

Rest of the system is


Sony Ps-X9 turntable on a  Sutherland Phono

Analogue Audio Maestron Anniversary integrated amplifier

Lampizator DAC

Wattson Digital Streamer

Muon Filter

Silent Angel switch

All Luna Mauve Cables

Everything but the amplifier pluggeg in Plixir

 

maurice89
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kennymacc
399 posts
 

Based on the info you provided, I would highly recommend one of the smaller floor standers from Sonus Faber.

maurice89 OP
31 posts
 

@bigtwin The ceiling is very low, only 7 feet.

the treatment consists of bass traps in corners and a mix of diffusers and absorbing panels on all walls and ceiling. There’s a big sofa, rug and some velvety beanbags. So the room is not empty, but it is very small and the speakers are only 7 feet apart and listening position is 7 feet away. They are about two feet away fro

maurice89 OP
31 posts
 

Continued…

from the front wall.

 

@toddcowles 

I listened to the Harbeths HL5 when I bought my amplifier, they sounded gorgeous in the midrange but they became quickly congested with orchestral music( which doesn’t happen with the Euphonias). While it’s not a genre I listen to a lot, it showed me the limitations of the speakers and made me consider the 40.2, sadly they are also out of my budget range…

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audiotroy
3,782 posts
 

we are a  long time dali dealer the ms 4 are fantastic loudspeakers we had ours in an 18 by 16 foot room and they sounded great

you may just need to play with placement

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