Need recommendations on stand mount speakers

gratefuleric64 posts12-26-2019 7:19am"Love my Tekton double impact monitors $2000 and will make the KEFs sound like a clock radio"

The Tekton website does not show a Double Impact monitor, just the Impact. The Double Impact is a tower speaker. Needless to say, I'm confused.

My recommendation is that you stick with a small floorstander. I have owned the Dynaudio C1 Platinum and the Kef LS50. The Dynaudio's are fantastic but after a little time passed I felt that I was missing something. Salk Sound makes the Song3 that has a pretty small footprint and ticks most the boxes for around 3K.

The Dynaudio Special 40 is a monitor that you need to audition. If you get a used Atohm GT1 HD, it is an amazing loudspeaker that makes you feel you are listening to a floor standing loudspeaker with speed and clarity to match. Good luck.

Team,

thanks for for all of your input. Lots of interesting suggestions, some in my price range some not, but all very interesting. I will not be able to audition most unfortunately, since I am in a black hole of brick and mortar audio stores, so I will be limited to companies with a decent return policy. 

And while buying speakers unheard  heard is a bad idea, just about all my pieces in my main system I was purchased that way, even my Thiel CS2.4’s (big learning curve there!). But I am very pleased with that rig. So I will probably throw the dice and see what happens and do the same thing again. 

once I make a decision and acquire the loudspeakers I’ll report back!

Team,

So did as much listening and research as I could handle (patience is not my greatest virtue) and I kept being drawn back to the Canton Reference 9.2 dc.  Not well known in the states, but, like my Thiel, they make their own drivers.  I believe that says a lot about a loudspeaker company.  You can get a general feel of the sound from the YouTube vids on it, bass is a bit better in real life of course, very articulate.   The also have a good soundstage, though my room dimensions limit me a bit here. 

Also their price was right to boot, $1200 shipped, I thought, what the hell.

Visually, they are quite beautiful in gloss piano black with their curved sides and the craftsmanship is on par with the best I’ve seen, and weigh about 25 lbs each. 

So how do they sound.  They are clear, but warm. They are fast as well, and not etched at all.  Highs are quite nice. Very natural. They remind me of my Thiel CS 2.4’s, but a bit warmer, and they are fuller range than they have any right to be.  I get usable 25 hz as the test tones can attest, but I will try a sub I have just for kicks. 

Anyway, I’m greatly pleased, thanks for all the input.