Downsizing for Blade 2 and hunting for smaller floor standers


I live in apartments and love small , tall, thin, powerful speakers. I went from Dynaudio C2 to Blade 2 and am in absolute love with it. However, this whole thin and tall thing has scratched a new itch of me and I kept wanting to go leaner and smaller. I have thought about Beolab 28 which seems to be going for the extreme and also maybe the LS60, which feels like a downgrade in sound quality. So I wonder if there is something else I should consider to make my speaker smaller without significantly compromise full range sound quality.  

bwang29

I’m lusting after the new WB Act 3zero, as an owner of Vectors.  Price is gonna be north of the Blades, I suspect.

(Note to self:  cross the Adams off my short list.)

@bwang29 

The LS60 is to big of a jump down, but you might try the Reference 3 or Reference 5’s.

+1 @hilde45 

I had a pair of Ascend Acoustic Sierra towers with raal tweeters too, for like 7 years. They were absolutely wonderful, wide clear sound, not tiring, with amazing bass for their size. I just moved to larger speakers to get a more immersive sound in my then new house of stereo. And David at Ascend is the nicest owner you will ever meet.

+1 @steakster 

+1 @maxwave 

I also think Marten Parker Trio could be perfect. I heard the small Parker Duo recently and they were great but if you want bass then the Trio should be way better.

 

@hilde45 

Thanks for the info on Ascend ... spent about 30 mins on its website.   So is it Salk or Ascend? ... now i'm confused!!