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The most dynamic & transparent bookshelf

I get it when I hear some speakers like Wharfedale Denton 80th Anniversary, they are musical, detailed, but not on extreme dynamic, it can go pretty low and loud, but still lack a bit more powerful punch. My next aim for powerful speakers, will be something near perfect immune to distortions, must be extreme dynamic, go very loud and does not make the sound quality collapsed, also I insist to stick with bookshelf size, few options in my mind:

Ascend Acoustics Sierra 1 (with NrT upgrade, worth?)
Mark&Daniel Ruby
Dynaudio DM 2/8
Proac Response D2
Soundfield Audio Monitor 1

For Dynaudio and Mark&Daniel, I have concern on power and drive efficiency, though I'm using a Class D Audio SDS-400C power amp, it work damn good with my Denton (warm + transparent gear goes really well). My considerations based on factors in this order: price, near full range dynamic, neutral and transparent sonic quality, availability (as I'm from Malaysia, not easy to achieve those speakers), and last your opinions? Any other recommendations? Once again, I'm not looking for speakers with colorations, must extremely dynamic, dead neatral and transparent without snake oil!
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zd542
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"Zd, there is no need to split hairs. I don't disagree that these can cause minor differences, but since the power/sensitivity is a logarithmic relationship, they will not be significant to the basic calculations. Yes, room placement can increase certain frequencies, but that is a tonal balance issue, not an overall volume issue."

Maybe we are splitting hairs. I don't argue the basic facts that you present, just how important other factors are in relation to those facts. But you do acknowledge them as well, so I don't see real disagreement here.
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wim1983 OP
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Nyame: Thanks for your explanation, may I know how good in terms of distortion resistance? How loud and still able to maintain accurate details and imaging?
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Tsl49: To revise how dynamic is the Denton, I have to clarify with everybody here, again...I found that the speakers is able to drive at very high dynamic volume without distortions, but for some tracks like bass drum or piercing treble note, it will distort, hmm...so it can drive really really high dynamic volume, it can go party, for not works for all tracks, especially those less than perfect recording or record mastering at the extreme dynamic peak...hmm
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My suspect is Denton not fully "write in", hmm...
zd542
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" for not works for all tracks, especially those less than perfect recording or record mastering at the extreme dynamic peak...hmm"

There's a price to pay when you use equipment that is very revealing. Good recordings sound better and bad ones sound worse. Your system's not at fault. Its just showing you what's on the recording.
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