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Looking for warm sounding speakers

Looking for upgrading my present speakers (ADS L 1090) with something more modern. My preference is tilted towards warm sounding laid back speakers not aggressive in the mid range and not hyper detailed.
Electronics consist of RA opus 21 cdp, Symphonic Line Tube preamp and SS amp (130W/ch).

Want to remain in < 3K price range used or new.
Thanks

nakolawala
rleff
1,065 posts
 
Those dunlavy scIII's in Cherry might work well for you if you can give them some room to perform.I ran a pair with Cary slam 100 mono's and McCormack DNA-1 monoblocks;when using the solid state amps the scIII's performed extremely well with a tubelike presentation but not the equal of the Cary's as one would expect.
rgs92
974 posts
 
Harbeths (SHL5s at least) are certainly warmish, or certainly not cold/analytical at all, but at the cost of some detail/reach into the music, to my ears.
If you are asking this question because you have been burned by too-much-info speakers be careful not to swing too far in the other direction. Balance is usually always the key, I think.
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mapman
22,927 posts
 
"you have been burned by too-much-info speakers'

Often due to not feeding them right.

"Too much info" is a cop out in my mind. Give me all the info and do it well and to my personal taste, that's all I ask.
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plangco
158 posts
 
Zu Druids. Very musical, warm and efficient, great dynamics, quick.
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kclone
699 posts
 
Fritz Carbon 7 is a warm sounding speaker, well within your budget too.
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