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can forum readers help with advice on speakers ?

I'd like to upgrade my Cambridge Sound works M80 Newton speakers to something a little better and am looking for any suggestions that can be offered by forum members. The listening living room is a medium sized to small room about 11 by 15 by 8 with 2 open doorways to the hall and dining room . I'm using a Jolida tube amp , Marantz CD player and Rega P2 turntable with Bellari phono preamp . The M80's are on heavy oak speaker stands, look beautiful ,and sound pretty good .... but fuzzy at times . I have no room for a subwoofer and would like to stay away from the skinny floor standers if possible . My budget is $1000 and the speakers need to be magnetically shielded as one is close to the television . I'm wondering if the large numbers of smallish speakers that abound are just not going to move enough air with a 5 or 6 inch woofer . It looks like the recent review of the Renaissance speakers in Stereophile magazine would fit the bill but I see 2 really negative reviews have cropped up on the internet by customers. Thanks for any tips
smokeylynx
shoe
204 posts
 
Here's a pair that would be on my short list.
http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrfull&1226621787&/B-W-DM603-S3
These may be gone quickly...then again you never know.

I am not selling these either.
smokeylynx OP
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Shoe , thanks for 2 great suggestions . I'm still in the money saving stage of things and just starting to work my brain through the various options . Our 3 and 1/2 year old granddaughter is over every weekend and seems incapable of walking and runs all the time.... so I'm still a bit leery of floorstanders for this reason .
shoe
204 posts
 
I understand Smokey, I have grandkids too. I tell them to stay home, music is more important, ...ha!

gotta love em!
jaybo
4,478 posts
 
here's a thought. find a nice pair of large walnut advents. they sound incredible, look great(in a retro kinda way), and are truly classic, even by today's standards.
smokeylynx OP
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Jaybo ;

interesting thought , I bought a pair of late model baby mini advents on ebay and replaced the woofers with some Audax for music in the shop . Not too bad . Then my son gave me back the lame KLH bookshelf 3 ways I bought for him . I put all new drivers in it and got a 3 way crossover from some Baby Advents on eBay . Sounded not too horrible, but after reading online I discovered that the crossover didn't match my new drivers very well esp. ohmwise . That's when I bought the Cambridge Soundworks M80's . My 20 year old Infinity Studio 100 floorstanders had been retired from foam rot and lack of a kit for them , plus they weren't very good to begin with .
I looked online and it sounds like the New Large Advents were the improved version of the Large Advent . Thanks for the suggestion .
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