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These will be for a secondary listening environment with enough power for casual kitchen or living room listening. Sub line out, analog input needed. Looking to spend less than $500. Listening to primarily jazz.
AudioEngine, Edifier, Sonos, others?
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Thanks for all the great suggestions.
I decided to give the Audioengine HD4 a try. On sale for $359, no tax, free shipping and 30-day return it they don't satisfy.
They are a first class outfit.
Let us know if the speakers do you right!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
never felt the need to upgrade.
Pair was hooked up to a receiver once at an outdoor event and blasted (was out
of my control dammit...) and damned if they didn't sound OK and SURVIVE that
intact.
A2... imagine even larger/newer models would be great for bluetooth.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Vanatoo
The Audioengine HD3 meet your criteria provided your rooms are not too large or you don't play them too loud. I used them when I had to live in a hotel suite for a few months while my house was being restored. They have a rich, warm sound. I didn't use them with a subwoofer but they played loud enough for our small living room.
A couple of years ago I bought this mono Klipsch bluetooth speaker. It has nice tone and decent clarity and sounds better than the LaScalas and Heresys I used to have.
Q Acoustics M20?
Sub line out, too. Hmmm.
I really like the Dynaudio Bluetooth speakers at the link below. Unfortunately, they don't have sub line output, but they have a line input, aux input and an optical input in addition to a Bluetooth input. I use them with my HDTV.
Best regards,
John Elison
I had a pair of their then $99 powered BT's on my bench a few years ago. Dreadful highs, boomy bass. So I gave them to my granddaughter to not listen too while she doesn't use the A-T turntable I bought her for her first Teen birthday.
She, like all her peers, is a committed Airpod Kid. At least they're not turning up the radio when I have to chauffer.
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Novus Ordo Seclorum
I'm wondering if I might resurrect my Monoprice Soundstage 3 that died with a new PE Bluetooth amp and still use the Monoprice cabinet/speakers. Hmmm.
Pronounced "Oag (as in oatmeal) ta LA ray."
Which apparently is how you say "Loudspeaker," if you work in IKEA's headquarters.
It's a co-developed product, designed to fit into IKEA shelving-unit cubbies.
Mine is in fact in the kitchen. The big woofer and the overported enclosure mean that I don't miss a subwoofer. In fact, I "Pro-Ac'ed" the port with cocktail-stirrer sipping straws, to tame the bass.
One great feature is that you can buy two units, and pair them for stereo--again, with two woofers that large, I don't think you need a SW for casual listening.
The link is to Amazon, with Morel USA as the seller. Perhaps you can find a lower price.
Such as: A "New/Open Box" one on eBay.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/385545702722
Best of luck,
john
for installing straws and not pushing them through as you get towards the end?
The above image is a 5-inch two-way in a 10-Liter cabinet, with a Precision Sound Products double-flared port kit, and a straw-stuffed port.
I start out with a bunch of straws that is larger in diameter than the port tube. I then do a test fit and remove enough straws so that it is a comfortably tight fit.
Then I take the kind of elastic band that the supermarket uses on broccoli and put that around the near end. I then add straws from the opposite end, one at a time and test fit until it requires some effort to get the whole bunch of straws halfway into the length of the tube.
Then I take the bunch and even it out by rolling it between my hands and then pushing one end down on a table top and then the other, and then carefully push it in (using the base of a jar or a drinking glass as a pusher) until the port is stuffed, but there remains enough of a fingerhold on the elastic band, so that I can pull the straw bundle out, to show visitors what the difference is.
(NB: The above photo is different because it's my design and the rear panel is removeable, so I can adjust and straighten out the straws from both ends of the port tube.)
I actually sent a bunch of straws in an elastic band to Morel USA, and they never got back to me. "Not Invented Here Syndrome," I guess.
I'm sold on the idea, which I stole from the ProAc of 35 or so years ago.
john
nt
I recently picked up an Audioengine B2 for casual use in my home office. It has an analog line input and also does bluetooth. Quite nice for the money ($199 new, $129 factory refurb), but the only catch for your situation is that it doesn't have a subwoofer output.
But the lack of a sub line out made it a no-go for me.
The Audioengine HD4 caught my eye, though.
Buy the stands. I doubt you'll need a sub.
-Rod
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