Best loudspeaker with coincident/coaxial driver

Audiobrian-

I will concur w/ Mattmiller. Look no further than Thiel CS 2.7 or CS 3.7 models. This is my reference loudspeaker and it is a killer bargain. Take the left over money and put it into better gear, especially, cables & power cords.

Keep me posted & Happy Listening!

Tannoy

Steen Quatro with carbon tweeter....
Ccherance and EQ bass plus minimal load on your amp.
I am pretty biased tho...last three speakers are from Richard...
You might give him a call and talk about the room..he answers the phone , press 1 and ask for him...

"Zd542, thanks, Vandersteens are wonderful loudspeakers and indeed very coherent, but in a small room with nearfield listening, IMHO a coincident design may make for better driver integration and ease of placement."

I don't see a problem going with a pair of Model 1's or 2's, but if you must have something smaller, look at a pair of ProAc Future 1 or .5's. They work very well in a small room. I'm from NYC so we have a lot of experience with small rooms. As far as coherence goes, the ProAc's aren't quite as good as the Vandersteens, but they are better than my Wilsons, JM Labs, Audio Physic and B&W's of similar price and design. They do a perfect job of blending the ribbon tweeter in with the rest of the drivers.

Coincident drivers are no guarantee of anything. I've heard coincident and non-coincident prototypes of essentially the same monitor and even from 3 feet away there was not a "coincident advantage".

Now, the large spread of drivers, and maybe other design aspects, does make the Salon 2 less coherent than many other speakers with fewer drivers and a shorter spread of drivers top to bottom, but you need not go to a coincident to eliminate that effect, which can be distracting, though this is still a great speaker IMO.