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Reference 3a Grand veena or Duntech Sovereign

I have a pair of Grand veena now and have been offered a used pair of Duntech Sovereign at very reasonable price. I read many other reviews and found that its soundstage is superb and I also listen to them once at my friend's home who use its as main speaker for home theater system and it is amazing!) My room is very large about 20x40x8.5 ft and used for both HT and 2 channel listening because I do not have another room for seperate system. I'm impress with the sound of grand veena as well but due to space I cannot keep them both if I decide to replace the Sovereign in my room. One more thing I use ASR Emitter II exclusive integrated amplifier in my system. So I want your opinions and suggestions about how these two compared to each other and whether I should keep Grand veena or get legendary Duntech.
Please recommend me to support the decision.
teenoy
tbg
5,263 posts
 
Wasitpon, they will work.

Another matter, is the use of feet or stands under the Sovereigns. Dunlevy never recommended the use of feet and I never did. They would have to be very substantial feet as each Sovereign weighs 350 pounds. I do suspect that they would benefit from the use of StillPoints component stands that I use under my Tidals.
rcprince
3,070 posts
 
Wasitpon: I agree with Tbg, 1200 watts from your amps should work fine.

Make sure you're sitting at least 10 feet from them to get the best integration of the drivers.
rgs92
974 posts
 
Tbg, thanks. My old Wilson WP6s made some vocals (especially on lesser recordings) actually sound like they had a buzzing overtone. I heard this same affect sometimes in some Wilson demos. I really hear this, but maybe it's just me.
wasitpon
6 posts
 
Hi,Tbg,Rcprince
Thank you for your informations!
Please sugest me about how far?
Speaker to speaker and Toll-in?
Speaker to back wall?
Speaker to siting person.?
PS.I feel excited for coming Sovereigns
Thank you
Pon
tbg
5,263 posts
 
Wasitpon, if I recall correctly, John Dunlevy wanted no toe in. He was wrong as I recall. The speaker's drivers are in a curve to have the voice coils in the same line. I always found toe in improved the sound stage.

I would think a minimum of ten feet from both speakers would be minimum. I once heard them at CES in Macormick Place in Chicago in a 50' by 30' by 18' reinforced concrete room where we listened about 25' from them. I never heard them any better.

Measure the distance from between the woofers, which I think is where the tweeter is. Multiply by 1.65 and make that the distance to the side walls from the center of the speakers front panel. Multiply that distance by 1.65 and that is the distance from the front of the speakers to the back wall. Remember that if you use feet under them, you have to redo these calculations.
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