Interesting comments. I guess to be concrete ...
Right now I have an old pair of Lineaum LS-2 towers that I still quite like (really clean mid-range and treble to my ears, big soundstage, etc.; they just sound good!), but which have sort of weak and uninvolving bass.
The path that brought me to this question was:
I first had the idea of looking into the monitor and subwoofer approach, and listened to the Era Design 5s and Paradigm Studio 20s. But I actually didn't leave convinced they sounded better than my existing speakers.
So someone suggested I look into a subwoofer to augment the weak bass of the Lineaums and not worry about replacing them just yet.
But notwithstanding the large room, it seems to me there are some great deals in floorstanders (from Joseph Audio, Totem, etc.). But digging more, I've seen commentary on the room size issues with these speakers.
So the best options I see are:
1) buy a good subwoofer now, with the possibility of maybe upgrading the mains latter (probably following David's suggestion).
2) replace the Lineaum with another floorstander in the used $1000-1500 range.
Of course, 1 and 2 aren't completely exclusive (I could get a sub and do 2 also).
There's another option, which is to just spend my money on music!
Right now I have an old pair of Lineaum LS-2 towers that I still quite like (really clean mid-range and treble to my ears, big soundstage, etc.; they just sound good!), but which have sort of weak and uninvolving bass.
The path that brought me to this question was:
I first had the idea of looking into the monitor and subwoofer approach, and listened to the Era Design 5s and Paradigm Studio 20s. But I actually didn't leave convinced they sounded better than my existing speakers.
So someone suggested I look into a subwoofer to augment the weak bass of the Lineaums and not worry about replacing them just yet.
But notwithstanding the large room, it seems to me there are some great deals in floorstanders (from Joseph Audio, Totem, etc.). But digging more, I've seen commentary on the room size issues with these speakers.
So the best options I see are:
1) buy a good subwoofer now, with the possibility of maybe upgrading the mains latter (probably following David's suggestion).
2) replace the Lineaum with another floorstander in the used $1000-1500 range.
Of course, 1 and 2 aren't completely exclusive (I could get a sub and do 2 also).
There's another option, which is to just spend my money on music!