Make him an outdoor cat! LOL
$1000-$2000 Floor-standing speakers for larger room w/NAD 326bee
I’m looking for a set of floor-standing speakers for our main listening room. They will be 2 channel music only. They need to be "cat safe" (no fabric on front, or removable grills), able to fill a larger room (20x15 with vaulted ceiling) with decent volume (typical max listening level is 85-90db but a lot of listening is at low volume as well) and efficient enough for a NAD326BEE. Budget is ~$1000-$2000 for the pair. My old speakers in the room were open baffle design (Hawthorne Audio Duets) and I did like the relatively open sound stage they provided. I may move them to a different room or just sell them (they’re too wide for our current configuration in the room and they aren’t too high on the "cat safe" scale). I have a couple of Polk TSi400’s in the room now as "placeholders" until I decide on a permanent pair. Minimum distance between speakers is about 8-10 feet and listening position is about 10 feet from the speakers. The speakers will need to be within about of the wall behind them. The floor is carpeted.
Music is a mix of Jazz, Classic Rock and Classical and sources are turntable and streaming from a Roon server. I live in the Atlanta metro area and
I’ve been out of the speaker hunting game for a while so any suggestions would be very much appreciated!
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Many great suggestions above. In your price range you really can't go wrong. However, the "cat clause" may be your biggest issue. One suggestion I did not see above is Epos K2. I had a pair and loved them. Got a great deal from Music Direct on them. Silk dome tweeters (perhaps give a more laid back sound) may be a good match for your NAD. They are 89 dB sensitive, front ported, and best of all comes with a cat friendly fascia. Here is a review I found. http://www.epos-loudspeakers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/K2-Hi-Fi-Choice-Web-Quality.pdf |
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