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Recommendatios?

Currently have Wilson Sophia IIs driven by AR Dsi200 with PS direct stream DAC.  Sound is good but looking to replace speakers for better sound for under 20 K.  Would consider replacing amp as well.  Any recommendactions appreciated?
poodledog
erik_squires
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What are your room acoustics??
poodledog OP
7 posts
 
Large room (20 × 40 x 10). Audio at one end with speakers facing side wall.  Acoustic panels on all walls.  Have not done room correction.  Realize I can move up in the Wilson line but is there a better alternative?
willgolf
936 posts
 
I have a room similar to yours but with an even higher ceiling.  They say it is hard to get good sound in a room that size.  I say hogwash.  I have the Sonus Faber Homage Amati Tradition speakers powered by a Raven Integrated Reflection Tube amp.  My streamer is a Lumin X-1.  I had Wilson speakers prior to the SF's.  I absolutely love the sound and look of SF.  
audiokinesis
2,737 posts
 

"Large room (20 × 40 x 10). Audio at one end with speakers facing side wall."

I’m envisioning speakers along the 40 foot wall but at one end of the room. So when you sit in the "sweet spot", it sounds to me like there’s a wall to one side, but a whole lot of open space (the rest of the forty foot width of the room) to the other side. Is this correct?

If so, how is the imaging in the sweet spot? I would think having fairly early reflections on one side but not on the other could cause problems.

Is a different configuration feasible?

How important is the sound quality outside of the "sweet spot", like throughout the rest of the room?

"...looking to replace speakers for better sound."

What needs to be improved the most?

Thanks!

Duke


mzkmxcv
777 posts
 
Revel F228Be, or maybe something from Salk if you want custom finishes (long wait times). 
 
For new amplification, maybe something from Bryston.  
  

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