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Christmas is near and I have been thinking of upgrading my 2 channel setup with the options I have hopefully you guys can give me an idea for my tastes
Speakers -
a) Yamaha ns 555 or ns 777
b) Dali sensor 7
c) JBL es 30
My listening tastes range from mainly classic rock, classical, blues, indie and oddly enough old school hip hop and some dance. I am partial to a warm to neutral setup.
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How did you choose these three? Dali is in a different league I should say and preferable. The reviews of Dali Zensor 1 and Zensor 3 say they are very good. Dali Zensor 7 must be even better. I thought the paper cone was a good thing and I feel it is treated properly since they sell in the tropics. Good luck.
Bill
The choice of the above named brands were done solely on availability and nothing else.
Indeed Dali are cut from a higher grade cloth than the the others in the list.
Having contacted dali their reply was as follows.
Thank you for your mail.
We do put our speakers through rigours climate test before they go into production, and all of them are able to sustain it the mentioned climate. We have for years sold our speakers in countries with climate conditions like yours, and we have had no known complaints about damage to the speaker membranes, or any other part due to humidity.
You should be perfectly safe buying DALI speakers.
Best regards
Lars F. Jørgensen
Product Manager
That should be the end of your concerns about humidity.
Over here where I am, not too far from Srilanka, the humidity is almost 100% and I see a lot of Dali being sold. One particular HT system is very popular.
Cheers
Bill
Thank you for your replies.
I am gravitating towards the dali speakers as the consensus suggests but the problem I have is that the drivers in it are wood fiber and with the high humidity from where I am questions their longevity.
Any thoughts whether they can handle moisture.
If the drivers are polymer coated they might be OK in a place like Sri Lanka. I'd try contacting Dali customer service for an answer, and if you get an answer please share the info with us here.
Thank you
I will contact dali customer services and let you know
Yeah, out of the 3 the Dali would be the more balanced and versatile sound. The JBL would have a larger bottom end sound. I saw your post on amps, I've heard some systems with NAD & Dali, they seem to make a nice match.
Try to audition all of these speakers, then decide for yourself. If you cannot audition prior to buying, and you like a "warm to neutral" sound, I would stay away from the Yamahas. I listened to some Yamaha NS series speakers once and I thought that they were on the bright side of neutral, in the manner of speakers designed more for Home Theater than for two-channel hifi.I have had no experience with the JBL or the Dali.
Edits: 12/19/14
When folks make statements like HT speakers are bright, and such. The fact of the matter is that "good" HT speakers are no different than plain old "good" speakers. I will never understand why folks try to pigeon-hole speakers into categories. A speaker either faithfully reproduces the input signal or it does not.
Whether you use your speakers for HT or music listening, or a combination, should make NO difference. They either do a proper job of reproducing the input signal or they do not....
-RW-
I believe that many speakers (not all, of course) aimed at the HT market are voiced for enhanced dialogue intelligibility, so that the words spoken during movie playback will be easier to follow and understand amongst all of the other sounds and special effects noises going on in movies. When used for two-channel music playback, however, these "HT speakers" can sound a bit bright and fatiguing over time due to the slightly elevated frequency response in the vocal or dialogue region.Actually, I believe that HT speakers might have flatter frequency response through the mids and highs than good music speakers do, but such perfectly flat frequency response doesn't always translate to enjoyable or accurate sound when music listening is the primary objective.
But, regardless of what the general trends in HT speakers might be, after having listened to Yamaha NS series speakers I would have to say that they certainly struck me as sounding a bit on the bright and fatiguing side - at least for long term music listening.
Edits: 12/20/14
The Yamaha NS series of speakers were developed and sold LONG before HT was even on the horizon. And I do agree that they are "bright". After listening to a pair of NS-1000Ms connected to very good electronics, I could not in good conscience sell them to anyone seeking true to life sound reproduction.And the bulk of the dialog in a HT system is handled by the center channel speaker. As long as it is up to the task there shouldn't be a problem.
I currently use an all-Gallo speaker system (Bi-amped Ref. 3.1s for front L/R and Ref. AVs for center and surrounds) and they sound terrific for both HT and music reproduction. Good speakers sound good, no matter the source material...
-RW-
Edits: 12/20/14
The Yamaha speakers I heard were the more current "post HT era" models, NS-777 and NS-555. While the bulk of the dialogue comes via the center channel speaker, all speakers in a HT ensemble tend to be timbre-matched.
Go with the Dali speakers.
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