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New room needs new speakers, I need your help

Hello everyone!

I have a new house and a new acoustically treated room, but it is very small: we are talking roughly 12' by 16'.

I use a pair of Dali Euphonia MS4 and I feel they need a bigger room to shine, the volume I need for them to sound full is just too much for my modest room. I really enjoy accurate timbres and I need a beautiful midrange and midbass, I listen mostly to women vocals and jazz.

I am looking for a pair of speakers that will cost me a maximum of 5K on the used market.

I am very sensitive to fatiguing treble, I don't look for absolute treble clarity, I love an easy listening speaker.

My ideal speaker would be the PMC IB2SE which I auditioned extensively, but sadly it is out of my budget.

 

I am open to your suggestions!

 

Rest of the system is


Sony Ps-X9 turntable on a  Sutherland Phono

Analogue Audio Maestron Anniversary integrated amplifier

Lampizator DAC

Wattson Digital Streamer

Muon Filter

Silent Angel switch

All Luna Mauve Cables

Everything but the amplifier pluggeg in Plixir

 

maurice89
toddcowles
135 posts
 

@maurice89 fair enough.  I did spend a couple months a/b’ing a set of Dynaudio Heritage Specials.  What a beautiful sounding speaker.  Just packed them up and sold them to fund some other investments.  But, they have a really smooth high to mid transition and the bass from them was astonishing.  Drove them with a Pass Labs X150.8.  FWIW.  

ronboco
838 posts
 

Joseph audio pulsar would be on my audition list. Good luck!

vinylshadow
489 posts
 

Fischer & Fischer SN 70's for the win. $4k I believe. 

zlone
652 posts
 

QLN fits the bill soundwise, but would stretch the budget. I have seen the 3’s for sale used in the $5k range. Check these forums for opinions. 

elliottbnewcombjr
5,338 posts
 

used, and near enough to meet the seller for pickup or meet halfway makes the most sense, where do you live?

If close, I would want to know more about these

https://www.ebay.com/itm/176681770148?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338381866&toolid=10001&customid=59a5be2c-a296-11ef-8611-313963656561

with that ceiling height, keeping the drivers below the center of 7’ height, aiming the drivers, especially tweeter, up to arrive at seated ear height and avoid ’equal’ reflections off floor/ceiling, angle and timing of reflected sound waves ....

toe-in away from side walls, adjustable to alter imaging for one or two listeners

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