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Which Floor standing speakers with the NAD C356 Int. Amplifier

Hi to everyone,
First of all, thank you for taking your time reading this post.
I have very modest electronics (NAD C356 Int. Amplifier, OPPO BDP93 DVD/CD Player, Monitor Audio Silver S2 speakers). The sound is so so, of course a lack of details and no full range of the sound since S2 are bookshelf speakers. So I am looking for the floor standing speakers that go down to 38Hz-40Hz. My room is 17' x 11.5' x 9'
The speakers would go along with the long wall and not more then 15 Inches from the rear wall. Listening distance is 8.5'. I am listening everything, from uptempo jazz to the dance music. The budget is $3000.00.
So in your opinion, which speakers would have good synergy with the NAD given the size of the room.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.

djengan
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samac
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djengan,

You have some great gear. Lots of great speakers out there. The Monitor Audio Silver 8, Bowers and Wilkins 683 S2 and Golden Ear Triton 7 or 5 would be some I would suggest. All fantastic speakers.

Cheers,

Scott
randy-11
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why not sell the nad?
djengan OP
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Somehow I got used to the NAD sound. Of course there are tons of the better sounding amplifiers but the NAD is safer option. I had Simaudio Neo 250; Arcam A19; MF M3si and all of them had different sound signature but
the lack of highs was common. The worst was Simaudio.

randy-11
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generally one wants to get the best speakers possible and have an amp that can drive them w/o clipping (damping factor is usually not an issue these days, but if the speakers need a lot of current at some low impedance in the freq. range the amp must deliver)

beyond that you get into things like crossover distortion etc.

nad is well regarded ( I have a 2100 in my bedroom system) and yours is rated at 80W pc into both 8 and 4 ohms, so you need to look at each speaker for efficiency and your desired SPL, and then examine the impedance curve vs. freq.

once you have a few selected, hook them up and listen, recognizing that a new speaker will sound tight and restricted (if a voice coil design) until broken in
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