From tiny Silverline's to slightly bigger PSB's

My take is exactly in line with Bondmanp's. I have not heard the Synchrony line, but I've never been too crazy about the PSBs I have heard. In contrast, I think the Minuet is a remarkable little speaker.

All of that is to suggest that you listen before you buy. And the Minuets are so small, you can just drag them along for an A/B.

the synchrony line is as balanced as anything i've heaed in the last ten years.

PSBs are incredibly linear at all their price points, with a nice, natural room-filling dispersion. In general PSB and Paradigm sound better than their asking prices would indicate, as they use Canada's National Research Foundation's sophisticated psychoacoustics studies and R&D facilities, dramatically reducing the R&D costs in the selling price.

"What don't you like about the Minuet that you think the PSBs will improve?"

The Minuet is an over achiever, but it can't fill my large listening room. This is not the fault of the Minuet, it is user error in not matching a speaker to listening space. I'm guilty of this. For desktop, small to medium room, near field listening - the Minuet is an absolute joy to behold, a reference/recording monitor selling for a song. My search for a used speaker system for my large listening room that matches well with my Jolida JD 302 continues on..

How big is your listening room, and how contained is it (4 walls, vaulted ceiling, open architecture, etc.)? The Minuet has two problems in filling a large space: 1) Its radiating area is tiny with a single 3-1/2" woofer, and 2) its measured sensitivity is a rather low 85 dB. That means that with a 50 wpc amp, and a listening distance of 8-10 feet, it can only put out a clean peak or crescendo of 99 dB.

If you really like the sound of the Minuet you might be able to fix this with a powered sub to offload the LF duties, increase overall radiating area and open up the Minuet's dynamic range.

Another approach would be to get more power. Silverline claims the Minuet can handle up to 300 watts.

A third approach would be to replace the Minuet with a small-footprint floorstander that provides more room-filling radiating area. For little more than the price of the Synchrony Two B, you could get the PSB Imagine T Tower with 8"x13" footprint. Notice that both of these PSB models have a nominal impedance rating of 4 ohms, so you should use the Jolida's 4-ohm taps.