A pair of ProAC D-30r would be an improvement.
Having a port on the bottom makes placement easier
Having a port on the bottom makes placement easier
What comes after Harbeth 30.1s?
Well, prof is entitled to his opinion. Hare is a link that might interest you. PMC OB1i is the forerunner to twenty.26 etc. I can guarantee it´s a very nice speaker and could be had used for around 1,5 k$. http://hi-fi-avenue.blogspot.com/2010/09/british-sound-with-unbritish-bass.html Of course, the woofer isn´t very large so you can't play very loud. In that case I would choose the ATC40. |
As the owner of PMC's and Harbeth's I would say this. As with other companies, different lines of speaker differ in voicing. The OB1 and other models of that generation, most of which sat on low stands, likely sounded different and closer to classic BBC profile. I haven't heard one. I own Twenty.24 speakers. I auditioned the Fact line at the same time, and didn't like them as much, although they were more expensive. To me they were leaner and cooler, perhaps more neutral. Then came the TwentyFive series (or however they write it) and my understanding is that that line is voiced closer to the Facts. So as with Spendor, if you want the classic sound you probably want to go back a few years. |
Re PMC Fact speakers:
They aren’t more neutral - they are colored. This shows up in the measurements like I posted above. (And you can see the same coloration over and over in the consumer PMC models). I think a some people get fooled by the PMCs. They come from a company also known for making professional monitors, and the highs can seem detailed and precise, "like studio monitors" or something.But they are leaner in the midrange than is actually neutral. I don’t know how neutral their pro stuff might be, but for the consumer line it seems somebody at PMC decided the public wanted something different, more exciting vs accurate. |
just another data point, i had heard pmc speakers (modern looking floorstanders, 3 ways) model 526 i think it was, on a trip to london a few years back they were driven by sugden solid state class a amplification, and my impression was that these speakers err on the side of speed and sparkle and impact, rather than warmth and ’musical’ tonality - as such my sense is that they are more alike the spendor d series than their classic series (which tends to bring voices and acoustic instruments forward with nuance and body) this isn't to say you can't make a speaker like these, or focals, magicos etc etc, sound more warm and less 'hifi' with the correct ancillaries, but what i think @prof is talking about here is the more fundamental voicing of the speaker here, which i tend to agree with, as compared to harbeths, classic spendors, and so on |