In search for speakers of "natural" sound
@quanghuy147 this is may be of interest https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/a-brief-review-of-15-high-end-speakers-on-home-demo-including... If if you are in the UK please get in touch for a demo. What is your system? |
Tough question to answer when you omit the primary style of music you listen to, info on your romm size and treatments if any and your other components and of course your budget. All of this info is required to be able to properly recommend a pair of speakers, As mentioned above your present speakers are from a highly respected company known for producing a natural sound. For this reason I suspect your room and / or other components are in need of examination prior to the speakers. This is assuming you are looking to improve your systems sound. If you are just exploring other peoples idea of what they think a natural sounding speaker is in a general context then this info isn't required. |
For naturalness you need a very dynamic and unforgiving speaker. Preferably a pro studio monitor, active or passive. Great suggestions would be ATC, Westlake, Quested, PSI, Unity the Boulder, Barefoot, dual centric Tannoy and many more. Westlake is a "new" favourite of mine. Note - with these your bad recordings will sound bad and the good will sound good sometimes fantastic. They will not all sound mediocre as with most HIFI home speakers. Your Harbeth should be ok although being a home speaker. I found it a bit uninspiring. Harbeth also have studio versions. Don't know if they are different. If you with natural sound means concert sound, then visit a live venue. I don't want that sound in my home because it's very seldom enjoyable. You don't go to a concet for the sound. Maybe Roger Waters... Not sure about the open baffle suggestions. Can't think of a speaker technology that interacts more with the room. But would like to try in the future. Also, as someone already pointed out, try to find the good recordings and skip the bad. Discover new artists that really try to also present a fine sound. There are lots of them. Also the same artist may hav a big spread between good and bad recordings. Sometimes on the same cd. Listening to John Fogerty when writing this and he is a good example. Tidal is great for this. Just my ideas and Good luck! |
Take a listen to speakers by Vanderstein or Thiel (used). Both built only with first order crossovers which provides phase coherence through the crossover regions. And since both had "music-loving" rather than "hi-fi" sensibilities they tended to avoid anything that didn't sound like real music. There may be others as well that meet this criteria, but I (and countless others) can attest to the fact that these two manufacturers delived the goods when it came to "natural". |
