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Need Recommendations for a pair of Speakers around $1,000

Hey All !

Ok, so with wife is good with spending about $1K on a pair of speakers.

I'm not sure of the preamp yet but the amp will most likely be an Adcom GFA-545 not the 545II.

I now have an older pair of Dayton Wright LCM-1's which are more suited to a smaller room.

The new speakers will be in the living room connected to the Adcom and also a signal fed from the TV but I don't want a multi-speaker system. Stereo is fine and if they sound good to me with music the wife will be happy with the TV sound. She just wants them to look good and not have a lot of wires hanging around. We'll be listening to vinyl, CD's, Lossless, FM and possibly music fed through Apple or AT&T fiber optic TV setup.

The living room is 19' w X  29' d with a 12' ceiling, hardwood oak flooring and 4 - 6' tall windows on one wall. The other side wall is open to a long entrance way and 2/3 of the far side is open to the kitchen are.

I thought about a used pair of Klipsch Hersey's but I keep reading comments that they are too outdated compared to advances in audio over the last few decades.

So for around $1K what are some good choices. I'm OK with used.

Thank you !

 

gorquin
avanti1960
1,472 posts
 

These PSB towers do it all- massive no sub required bass, near horn like sensitivity and dynamics, coherent imaging and sound stage. I have not heard or owned a better audio value than these.

 

mofojo
2,288 posts
 

Pair of Dynaudio Focus 160s on the gon for $1250. Could make an offer. Had the 140s and they were good and I hear the 160s are a pretty good step up. Good looking little speakers to boot. 

Although over your budget even in kit form I can highly recommend the CSS Criton 1TDX as a high value leader. They immediately reminded me of the several Dyn C1 demos I've had. The Dyns would bottom out at high volumes on bass heavy music when things got fairly loud. With the Critons my ears give up and I have not found their limits. Not sure what these would go for on the used market but they are damn good. 

mofojo
2,288 posts
 

Also the newer Paradigm Monitor SE speakers are surprisingly good. I have the 3000f out in my garage system and they are really nice. Pushing with an older 30 wpc Luxman receiver and its plenty of power. They sounded too close for comfort to my Focal 836w ($4,500 speaker 10 years ago) when I tried them in the house.

Way too nice for the garage but long story short I only have $25 into them and 5 bucks in to the Luxman :-)

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