@grislybutter , I seem to be in a place in life where my short periods of happiness are followed by longer periods of apathy or even discontent that my initial impulse is to attempt to spend my way out of. Possibly it will pass. BTW, thanks for the link--I have visited it before.
Would Totem Arro's be a significant upgrade from Kef Q150's
My listening room is on the long/narrow side 8' x 18' x 8' high. Therefore I listen in the nearfield, speakers (Kef Q150's) are 5' apart and myself 7' away from them. I very much enjoy the sound I'm getting from them. My setup is Yamaha A-S501 with chromecast audio going into the optical input, streaming Spotify premium. My speakers are 2' away from the rear wall and I find the bass is plentiful that I don't use a sub woofer. I have the opportunity to purchase a pair of used Totem Arro's which would work in my room as far as tower speakers are concerned. I am quite happy with the sound I'm hearing now, but if this would be a significant improvement I would purchase the Arro's and sell my Kef's. Type of music I listen to is a lot of acoustical, alternative/indie, a little classic rock.
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What??? That lil Revel Lackluster-Be was 4400 per pair?????? (facepalm)Thought it was 2200/pair. Harman PhD appears to have robbed you @immatthewj He is still paying back his student loans w/interest maybe. That tekton epic 15 is $2200/pair, shipping included and will beat the living daylights out of Lackluster-Be. Good luck.
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@immatthewj my period of apathy is at least until 2028. There is no way I could spend my way out of it |
@deep_333 when I bought them MD and Uncle Kevin were marking them down to 3k. They have both priced them back up to $4400.
Oh, okay. When I clicked on 'two' I was clicking two pair.
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@grislybutter , I wanted to give some thought prior to typing a reply. It is not that I do not LIKE the Revels, and it is not that I don’t think that they are BETTER sounding than the nearly 30 year old B&W 805s that they replaced. (Sorry, I guess that sentence was kind of a double negative which might be confusing if read quickly.) I guess what it is, is that now they don’t sound that MUCH better to me than the B&Ws and I was hoping I would like them a lot more. I felt that the ancient B&Ws were the weak link in my system and I was hoping that technology that was almost 30 years newer and hadn’t been run real hard and put away wet for many years over would simply blow them away, and that is not the way I now feel about them. What they do that I like is that vocals sound more palpable between the speakers than with the B&Ws. Sometimes the B&Ws were sounding worn out and tired to me and the Revels do not sound that way. With the lights off the Revels do present the illusion of sound that is bigger than the room (the speakers and the walls "disappear") and they do not sound strained doing it. But the B&Ws did that. I guess I don’t know what a "slow" speaker sounds like, or at least if I do, it’s been many years since I’ve had a pair in my system, but with fast source material the Revels "sound fast" (to me) and they don’t sound strained doing it; but the B&Ws also "sound fast" to me with source material that goes fast, and they (the B&Ws) also did not sound strained. I have to take into consideration hearing loss and my ever changing moods and the deficiencies in the listening environment my system is now living in, but really, in hind sight, I think what maybe I was looking for was something DIFFERENT than the B&Ws, and the Revels are probably really not different as far as principle of function. (And by that I mean as opposed to concentric drivers or horns or AMT tweeters or what have you.) And I cannot honestly say I have been doing a whole lot of serious listening lately, and I guess I really need to start doing more of that versus lusting over a different speaker I don’t (yet) have. I do not claim to be a poster child for good mental health, and I am sure that this has an effect on why things sound one way to me one day and another way on another day.
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