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Examples

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Posted by SPL on November 13, 2000 at 08:48:33

In Reply to: give me examples of bookshelves that surpass... posted by Snodog on November 12, 2000 at 10:01:15:

The Active/20 apparently impresses you as the finest "bookshelf" on earth. I would hasten to rimind you, at the risk of injury to your pride, that even the mighty Paradigm themselves make a speaker which at least they consider to be better (though you may disagree with them): the Active/40.

Sticking to retail, the Active/20 is $1900 or $1650 in a hand-me-down laminate finish. At this price range, there plenty of fairly decent (though not astounding) speakers. One has the choice of Vandersteen 2CE Signatures, Sonus Faber Concerto, Meadowlark Hotrod Kestral, Linn Keilidh, Mirage OM-7.

If you consider the used market, you may then include Vandersteen 3A, PSB Stratus Gold i.

Some I haven't heard and therefore can not recommend except to mention
that those who's hearing I trust have praised as worthy of consideration would be the VMPS RM-2 kit or RM-1, Vienna Bach, and possibly the Dunlavy SM-1.

If you wish for some reason to limit the choices to a bookshelf size, the choice of the SF Concerto reigns.

Very likely all of the above could be wiped out by a pair of Carver AL-III or Apogee Centaurs, but these are no longer manufactured. Absolutely, a used set of Carver Platinum Amazing mk-IV, if you had the space, would render most claiments null and void.

However, every single one of these speakers (including the Carvers) have weaknesses. I'm not suggesting that any of the above are SOTA. I do think, however, that any would present a more natural and realistic
picture of sound than the one's you've chosen.

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