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Don't think I'm crazy but...

I think I am wanting to replace my Thiels. I have the CS2.3's in a system I recently purchased a few months back. I started out with a set of B&K Sonatas driving them and kept blowing fuses/running out of power. My buddy talked me into buying as he puts it "more balls" so I bought a Bryston 14B SST which came rated at 969 watts pc @ 4 ohms on the run off sheet. Plenty right. Well I still don't think my system is "loud" enough. My other components for refernce are a Denon 2900 SACD player and a Denon AVR 3805 which I use to drive my other Paradigm speakers (I think the center channel is a cc570 or something). My room is big (35x25x8) which doesn't help I'm sure. Anyway someone else told me I need to be looking for more effecient speakers like say in the upper 90 or around 100 db's not more power. Any thoughts or recommendations? Sorry I'm just getting tired of throwing my money away. The Bryston guy told me I could drive anything with that amp but I've had it clipping out if I'm not careful. I guess I'm sort of deaf, wonder why eh?
kalkid
holzhauer
201 posts
 
I used to be a volume nut too. And a smaller pair of Theils (I think they were 1.2's) that I owned left me unsatisfied. Now with larger speakers that can go deeper in the bass department I find myself not needing the volume as much. I'm sure the big Theils that Mstram mentioned could play loud with a large enough amp but the bass would still be on the weak side.
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jayctoy
4,232 posts
 
If you want to keep the thiel,try the Stratos Extreme
Monoblocks Oddyssey, this are the best combination
I have ever heard,The krell FPB300 dont match, a bit
bright,the X250 are too dry dont match.The stratos
musicality is really good,Hope this helps.
danielk141
489 posts
 
Check out the Montana XPs for sale here on Audiogon today.
They are in a different league than the Thiels, for efficiency. The info link in the ad should answer all your questions. And Montanas sound excellent, in my opinion.

*I don't know the seller, I'm just a happy owner of Montana SPIIs.
cytocycle
1,043 posts
 
if you want volumn and dynamics, then you need to check out the larger VMPS speakers. Plus using Stereo subwoofers will help out lot so you can route LFE out to the subs and not to the main speakers
fbi
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