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A possible upgrade to JM Lab Electra 926s-advice?

Hi folks,

I currently own a pair of JM Lab 906s, and have the opportunity to trade them in at 90% value for a pair of 926s. I've augmented my 906s with a Martin Logan Depth, but my room is very difficult to work with, and is plaguing me with incoherency issues. I'm wondering whether it's worth the upgrade to more full-range 926s. Any opinions or advice?

I really like the smooth character that JM Labs impart into the music, but I think the Utopia series is obscenely expensive--so, I've definitively excluded these from my thinking.

Thanks much!

Associated equipment:
Shanling CD-T100
Nottingham Spacedeck/Spacearm
McCormack RLD-1 w/ Platinum Upgrade
PS Audio HCA-2
aml161
aml161 OP
11 posts
 
Thanks for the responses. I heard the 926s the other night, and they're better in quite a few ways.
beydoun1ca6
1 posts
 
hold on,

what about the new JMLab 25th Anniversary Electra Be 927's, with the Be tweeter.
jwu42
12 posts
 
Agreed with the 927 comment. Retail will be $6,000 from what I hear. Tough call when you can get a 926 new for ~$3,200. My dealer has some coming and look forward to hearing them.
mikeduke
59 posts
 
927's all the way. I love mine. The 926's sound good but the 927's just sound more refined. I have no regrets. Should be concidered even with that retail price.
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lousyreeds1
286 posts
 
JM says that all its speakers should sound the same within a product line, but that each successively larger room needs a successively larger model. They actually give optimal room dimensions on the website.

Has it been anyone's experiences that the larger models sound the same as smaller models when used in proportionally larger rooms?
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