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Can anyone suggest an accurate full range speaker on the cheap? I'm trying to finish up an album here, and am struggling to get mixes that translate well to other systems. I have an old pair of super zeros and the sw2p sub. Everything above 160hz or so is fine, but it's very tough to tell what's going on down below. That sub was always too loose.... I'm thinking if I could get a tower that was reasonably flat, I could cut my mixing time down. I had Vandersteen 2ces at one point, and they had worked pretty well, but my wife "suggested" I get a smaller pair of speakers. I now have a little more room and was thinking about nabbing an old pair of them again, but by this point, they are about 13 years old and may be starting to deteriorate...any thoughts?
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I would suggest a listen to a pair of pre owned Vandersteen 2CE sigs.
The speaker has evolved and offers expensive Scan speak drivers much better performance than can be expected from a box at this level.
Cheers John
made some excellent monitors, including the L-810 (which I've owned)and they can be had for well under 800.00 - clean and tight bass, though they were "bookshelve" speakers (need quality stands). Stereophile has been reviewing reasonably priced speakers for the past few years, and recently the new Monitor Audio Silver RS6 received a great review - below is a link to a pair of Monitor Audio Silver S8s on Audiogon.
I've got a pair of infinity beta 50's that list for $1,000 but can easily be gotten for under $800. I think they're pretty accurate for a floorstander in this price range. They have dual 8" woofers so they go pretty low and hit pretty hard. I think the -3 db point is spec'd at 35hz.
I have a week old pair of Silver Iris drivers, which cost $300, and they sound amazing. Not just for the $, but in a true-to-life 3-D craziness sort of way. they are amazingly accurate, faster than panel speakers and put out a huge life-sized soundstage.You wouldn't need the subs either, these suckers go low.
With baffles and simple materials like felt you're lookin' at under $500 for one of the best performing speaker systems out there...
speed, accuracy & musicality can be had for way less than $800.
matt
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Thanks for the suggestions...I'm not familiar with the hawthorne, but I will definitely check it out. I had heard the beta 40s a year or so ago at a Circuit City and was not all that impressed, but what a horrible environment to hear anything...and the monitor audio SR6 is on my shortlist, but I've been reading other people's opinions of them being too bright. They can be heard about an hour and a half from here... I live in South Jersey and it's purt near impossible to hear anything. I stopped in a store today to hear the paradigms. After finding a salesman, I requested an audition of their lower priced monitor series. No bass. I mean none. I ask if he has his integra receiver set for "small front speakers", hence no bottom. He gives me a blank stare and then tells me I need to hear the ones with a built in sub. I say OK, he switches over to them, and ...no bass! exactly the same. He looks at the speaker and then tells me..Well you need a separate sub for real bass. Sheeesh....it was no better at Best Buy where EVERYTHING sounded goddawful including the Martin Logan Montage...
Yes, do check out the Hawthorne Audio site, well informed fella's over there..OB fanatics, but for good reason..
Is that finally someone developed an OB full range driver that plays deep, low FAST bass and covers all the midrange and highs in a beautiful way...with a world class presentation.I wouldn't have said this 3 weeks ago, but now I can. The original posters speakers for comparison suck-ass compared to the SI's.
A few weeks back i spent several hours with a pair of VonSchweikert VR2's and was astounded by their bass performance. the SI's eat the VR2 for lunch...
Add to that the gargantuan 3-D soundstage and sweet-as-whipped honey mids and highs....
oh did i say they cost $300? probably $400 in total including speaker cables??
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