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Monitors for a small room - please help

I've begun the difficult task of finding a new set of speakers and an amp for my now-smaller listening room. I prefer smooth, warm, musical speakers over a dry, analytical sound. Detail is always good, but I don't like detail that sounds forced or unnatural. Musicality is important, and so is timbre and musical texture.

So given those facts, what pair of monitors can you suggest that will fit my tastes and a small listening room?

Thanks
jwglista
chayro
2,997 posts
 
The Opera Callas Monitors are great small-room, low-volume speakers. There's a pair up for sale now. No connection with the seller.
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driver
750 posts
 
Agree w/the Dynaudio & Spendor recs. Big sound from a small enclosure.

For an integrated, check out the Primare line. This is a company that flies under the radar & has an authorized US repair facility that is top notch.
masswineguy
13 posts
 
I'd definitely listen to the Silverline Audio Minuet. They get nothing short of phenomenol writeups.
rayray8
51 posts
 
sonus faber toys, dynaudio x12s, or for the best bang check out the Fritz mini monitors
svenerik
21 posts
 
I recommend considering the Era D5s. They produce very good bass for a monitor this size, are warm and smooth and image superbly. I did audition the Dynaudio Excite as well, and preferred the Eras - just a little more natural sounding to me. There is a glowing review at 6moons, which was what first turned me on the the Eras. They called them the poor-man's Totem Mani 2 FWIW.
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