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My Sonic Saga

While back brought B&W CM9s, Peachtree Nova Amp 220 and Nova Pre – preamp.

From the very beginning wasn’t happy with the sound – even though overall the systems sounds alright (maybe) – realized I like bright (tweeters perhaps) and good base as well. 

Some point in time the tweeter blew up and had to be replaced – but still never like the sound from the CM9s.

Have now moved into a new house and have a room that is 28x29 and 18 ft ceiling – and (re)considering my options!

 

Should I add a base, should I replace my speakers – what would you consider as bright speakers

My replacement budget is around $2500 for speakers (used is fine as well).

 

Music I listen to is Classic Rock – Floyd, zep to AC/DC, Pearl Jam, Jazz (starting to get into it quite a bit), world music (love east and west fusion)

Also looking forward to getting into vinyl at some point – the Peachtree novapre preamplier is good that way – allows me to add quite a few sources – inbuilt dac, etc

Love to hear your thoughts and thanks for your help.


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millercarbon
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If you like bass, your $2500 budget will buy you lifetime state of the art bass. Go to Parts Express, buy the Dayton SA-1000 sub amp, and four sub kits, all on sale now. Its what I did, and it was more than good enough for me. https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367#&gid=1&pid=8
Since this is new and you will not have heard of it before do a search and read up on DBA, distributed bass array, comments from noble100 and audiokinesis. Totally the way to go.
soix
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Travel as far as you have to and go listen to as many systems as possible until you find something that sounds good to you and start there.  “Bright” is generally a negative descriptor that connotes too much treble energy, so maybe you mean you like a very detailed treble?
mofojo
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Buy used Tekton  Double Impacts. You Will Not do better for the price and much higher especially for the music you listen to. 
kenjit
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Should I add a base, should I replace my speakers – what would you consider as bright speakers
Get an EQ and turn the treble up. If you want more bass turn the bass up. 
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