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Sound Stage and Imaging

I love speakers who 'paint a big picture' (I am literally closing my eyes and trying to SEE a picture). Therefore I THINK I like to see IMAGING and BIG SOUND STAGE. And also like DYNAMICS.

Being frugal (just not willing to spent audiophile level money on it), I love to persuit 'bang for buck' solutions in general.

With above goals in mind for a speaker: what hits the marks in the low fi (audiphile scale) $2k (used or new) budget range. (I have 2 setups: one HUGE room, one 20x20).

kraftwerkturbo
kraftwerkturbo OP
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Too much thinking/evaluating options. Had a pair of local Vanderstein 1 slip by (gone now for $250), not sure if that is a loss. Friend has 2B, but not suitable audition room, but sounded 'easy', 'light', 'airy'. 

 

kraftwerkturbo OP
318 posts
 

@grislybutter reading up on SL6 (SL6s? SL600). Also Thiel CS1 (xxx) mentioned in this context. Opinions?

 

grislybutter
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@kraftwerkturbo I know nothing about Thiels other than that they don't exist anymore. I have a friend who knows 20 times more about audio than I do and loves them, but that's anecdotal.

grislybutter
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And the Celestion was a wild idea, I own the 5s and love them and heard the SL6s and they please me like very few speakers do, it's very personal, may not work for you

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pcrhkr
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JBL has speakers in that price range. They bang for the buck with Dynamics, kick. Might not be the most smooth in the midrange, or treble but Dynamic. It depends what you like.

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