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Small speaker advice

Greetings and salutations fellow audiophiles!  Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this.  
     I am moving into an apartment for a year or so after living in a house with a dedicated listing room (divorce).  I’m looking to find a speaker to replace my ML Summit stats.  Not easy to replicate I know which is why I’m soliciting advice.  My max price range about 10k is give or take a few thousand. 
     Room is about 11’w X 12’d.  
I have a pair of Vienna Acoustics Beethoven Baby Grands I can also use but I need to upgrade their tweeters to get the best out of them.  So before I go that route and spend the $$ I’m considering selling them for something better suited to a room so small.  The Wilson Tune Dots are a contender. Never had a pair of Wilson’s. Love their sound and was thinking of inevitability replacing the Summits with them one day.  Head in a vice takes a toll after a while. 

My equipment consists of:

PS Audio BHK 250. Tube input stage with MOSFET output love its sound.
Krell KSA 2 preamp
My media choice is Vinyl and DSD.
I listen to classic rock, soul, jazz, electronic, and generally well recorded music.  No hard rock, rap, or otherwise. 

What I like is a speaker that can convey high detail with an open airy sound. Imaging is particularly important.  I’m fortunate enough to have the ability to hear higher frequency range with my 50 yr old ears (per my recent hearing test) 

Again thanks for sharing your experiences and advice!

rob606
ghdprentice
6,956 posts
 

If you like the sound of Wilson, then that sounds perfect for your venue. Some of the very best sound I have ever heard was in a tiny room. The trick is to have speakers of appropriate size and really warm natural sounding electronics. There is little margin for fatiguing or hard sounding electronics in small spaces.

Where I have heard small venues the best have been tubed equipment. But you have a Krell amp and the PS… sounds like add the dots and you are in business.

If you didn’t have a preference for Wilson I would recommend looking for a stand mounted speaker with AMTs.

rob606 OP
14 posts
 

Thank you all for your time.

@ghdprentice I am on the same line of thought which is why I was leaning toward the TuneTot's.  The PS amp has a really nice warm sound given the tube input stage.  I also gave thought to Wilson's older Duette Series.  Just don't know how they compare to the recent advancements in Wilson's driver tech.  

@rpeluso Thanks.  I'm not familiar with Perlisten but I will be soon enough!

@big_greg Thanks.  I've heard great things about Joseph Audio and I will familiarize myself with the Pulsar2 Graphene's.

@newbee Thanks for the advice.  The SOTA is what I'm considering putting in my VA Beethovens.  I've heard they're stellar tweeters and worth the money.  I've heard a pair of floor standing DynAudio speakers at a friend's house recently and even though they weren't fully broken in they sounded fantastic.  I'm not familiar with their product line just their drivers.  I will look up the Silverline.

rob606 OP
14 posts
 

Thanks for the link @grislybutter. Nice way to efficiently compare mfg specs.  Definitely will be a handy tool!

audiotroy's avatar
audiotroy
3,778 posts
 

look at a pair of alta audio Allyssa is  a bargain at 6k, easily competes with 10k monitors 

they feature:

an incredibly inert composite cabinet,

they feature state of the art drivers a custom modified pure ribbon tweeter coupled with a log throw, titanium former equipped, high speed midrange driver

and a unique hybrid bass loading concept which combines a transmission line design with a conventional infinite baffle design for very deep tight bass.

 

Dave and Troy

Audio Intellect NJ

Alta Audio dealers 

soix
9,456 posts
 

Given what you’re looking for I’d also highly recommend the Joseph Audio Pulsars.  I’ve heard them at shows in a small hotel room and they still worked very well.  Best of luck. 

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