Speakers for Gryphon Diablo 120


Speaker recommends under $6000 used?

 

13’ x 10’ room

Has sound treatment

Gryphon is dark

Currently use KEF R3 Metas -- still too dark

must be standmount

Have 2 KEF KC62 subwoofers already in room

B&W 705 S3?

ullogu1

@ullogu1 - The Dynaudio Heritage Specials are anything but dark. They’re super open and detailed. They are great speakers. I recommend reading the reviews on them with are consistent with my experience with them. 


Paired with the Gryphon, the sound is open, balanced, detailed with great bass. I’ve sat listening to the pairing incredibly immersed in the music. The pairing of the Gryphon 120 with the Dynaudio Heritage is straight up wonderful. 
 

 

I have heard great things about the Pulsars and I see them occasionally available around the $4000 range. I've never heard these. Do they havethe treble energy required? I'm sure with a Hegel it would work- but with the Gryphon?

I have the Diablo 300 which is similarly dark, a little more neutral, I have a pair of MoFi SourcePoint 10s, the sound is rich and detailed, the top end frequency response of the 10s is a bit hot so the pairing is synergistic in the best sense of the word. My other speakers are B&W 804 D4s, very different speaker but similarly hot on top and similarly synergizes with the 300. Funny aside, as a previous commenter mentioned, this forum is definitely anti-B&W, and yet in my system I've been happiest with the 2 pairs of B&Ws I've owned compared to anything else I've had, and I've had (for example) the Dynaudio Heritage Specials, which I liked but ultimately sold. They paired well with the 300, and would perhaps therefore be a good option for the 120, but they are only 85db sensitive so not particularly easy to drive.

If the Gryphon sounds dark to you, why are you trying to fix it with bright speakers?  I’d look for an amp that doesn’t sound dark to you and then maybe your KEFs will sound great.  Why are you bending over backwards to accommodate this amp?  Just move on.