Speakers


I value everybodies opinion, so I would appreciate any input you fellows can give me. I realize how many superb speakers are out there but since I can't audition hardly anything do the fact I live in a rural area I'm having a hard time deciding on an upgrade to my sound system, mainly speakers. I have approx: $5000 to spend on a pair and want some mains that will do it all including some serious bass as I listen to a lot of blues,jazz, home theater, and occasionally some head banging rock. I've listened to B&W, nice but too expensive and NO bass. Dynaudio, real nice but I don't think I have enough power. I need speakers that can stand to be fairly close to the rear wall,ie:18 to 24". From what I've read here on AudiogoN (great site I love it ) most speakers are geared for super nice amps and pre amps., which I don't have, but planning on upgrading in the future. I'm currently running 80 watts per channel of fairly clean power. Any insight you guys can give me I would be greatly appreciate. Thanks.
norton
Hi, first you are going to need some fairly effecient speakers since you are using 80 watts. Not bad by any means, just means speaker choice needs to be important. I was just going suggest B&W N803, but they need lots of power. You might want to look into the Paradigm line. The studio 100 is capable of some serious bass. Someone else may have a better suggestion, off the top of my head I can't think of any super effecient speakers except for maybe Coincident.
I think the answer for you might be Avantgardes or another horn loaded speaker. They run on almost no power and will produce insane amounts of volume.
JMlab Electra 926's. They have gotten great reviews by all the magazines. I have heard them on several different setups with varying electronics and have come away extremely impressed everytime. They retail for $4195, and I promise you'll be hard pressed to find anything that can beat them. Here is the JMlab website.

www.focal-jmlab.fr

Good Luck,
Brandon
brandonblair@telocity.com
I would look into Vienna Acoustic speakers. They make excellent speakers, and you may be able to pick up a paor of Strauss' for around $5k. Their is a pair of Mahlers (their best) here for $5.5k).

KF
Legacy focus 20/20 's or the VMPS RM 40's. i won both - you will be happy either way.