plastic penguin
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Can I throw another combo into the mix?
Wilson Benesch Discovery speakers and Luxman amplification. I heard this combo and it's fantastic.
Wilson Benesch are rarely mentioned on this forum, with the right amplification they are stunning: Luxman or Accuphase should be a great mix.
Al ears
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Good suggestion, I have heard both Luxman (nearly got one myself) and Accuphase amps but, as you say, Wilson Benesch speakers are rarely mentioned and I have to admit I have yet to hear any.
plastic penguin
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Yeah, I've heard WB on two occasions. Once at my old bosses place, Discovery and Luxman, and once at a dealers. It was entry-level WB Square Ones IIRC with Bryston amp and CD player. Both combos were very impressive.
Certainly if I had the money (and space) the Discoverys and Luxman would high on the list of 'must audition'.
MUSICRAFT
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nopiano
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Sorry, Rick, you’re quite right of course and that was a typo. I should have noticed! I’ll edit it now.SCM40A's UK RRP is a little bit less @ £7400/pair
Surly Sid
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RoA
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nopiano
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Satanh636
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I have a set of Focal Utopia III Evo they sound great one of the best speakers ever made , well worth the price . In the studio we use Focal as they are the best professional grade monitor speaker you can find , which is why I went with Focal Utopia's for my home system , Musicians are well acquainted with Focal , so don't many people will be able to tell you much about these speakers to the price is more then most people can afford . I did have a set of ProAc they are a good speaker not as good as the Focal thought . Here is some advice a lot of audiophiles will contest but I will say it anyway , Don't get bookshelf speakers they are not as good as people think they are in fact they suck , the bigger the speaker the broader and further the sound waves will carry as professional musician who knows all about sound , Go for tower speakers , unless your in a 4 by 4 meter room then just buy a good AIO Ghetto blaster with detachable speakers and a line in so you can hook your TV upto it .
12th Monkey
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You are replying to a thread that's been dormant since 2021, and where the OP hasn't been back since.
ultraminiature
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I have some ancient speakers that when working I have no need to better. Ove the passed 10 years they fail more frequently and have spent longer in for repairs. So I got some replacements and then two more so I have a working 5.1 system. These are also old and beginning to need fixes.
So I set out to get more modern speakers and hopefully not of worse quality.
I tried some life style speakers. Wireless streaming DSP active speakers. They impressed me by the high quality and for most of the time a good enough replacement for my floor standing big box speakers but in a more compact form. But they have poor latency and so watching TV, movies or YouTube using them is not good. I did have the chance to experiment with Bluetooth, Airplay 2 and wi-fi (DNLA) from a computer to them with a noticable improvement of wi-fi over both Airplay and Bluetooth (same wave file as source).
To resolve the connection to play back movies I went from the £3K pair to £14500 speakers that have WiSA (low latency wireless) and also the same wi-fi Airplay and Bluetooth as the smaller less expensive speakers. The bigger speakers are better, a tiny amount better and not anything like £11k better. A huge disappointment and all the reviewers seem to have no clue. Then the WiSA transmitter arrived. This turned them into a completely different speaker fuller, more low end, better stage and almost worth the difference in retail price (I got them second hand for 50% of the then retail price, 12 month sold).
They are still not better than my 45 year old speakers, different, as good, maybe. But I can live with them and that is all that matters.
I think selecting your choice is harder now than ever. Audio memory is poor. You can't walk into one demo and then go across town to another demo and make any real sensible distinctions between two high quality systems. Even side by size one may be better with some music but not on all choices. Fewer places can offer any A/B comparisons as they do not stock the models and can't order them in for a demo with just a potential sale of just one of system.
At the ultra high end I would always short list Linn, Naim, Meridian, some Dynaaudio, Dali and Kii and am still tempted to get in to test Buchardt speakers to hear if they really are 17-40kHz and the Cabasse The Pearl Pelegrina Wireless Speaker 10-27KHz when most are more likely to be 30/40-23kHz.
So I set out to get more modern speakers and hopefully not of worse quality.
I tried some life style speakers. Wireless streaming DSP active speakers. They impressed me by the high quality and for most of the time a good enough replacement for my floor standing big box speakers but in a more compact form. But they have poor latency and so watching TV, movies or YouTube using them is not good. I did have the chance to experiment with Bluetooth, Airplay 2 and wi-fi (DNLA) from a computer to them with a noticable improvement of wi-fi over both Airplay and Bluetooth (same wave file as source).
To resolve the connection to play back movies I went from the £3K pair to £14500 speakers that have WiSA (low latency wireless) and also the same wi-fi Airplay and Bluetooth as the smaller less expensive speakers. The bigger speakers are better, a tiny amount better and not anything like £11k better. A huge disappointment and all the reviewers seem to have no clue. Then the WiSA transmitter arrived. This turned them into a completely different speaker fuller, more low end, better stage and almost worth the difference in retail price (I got them second hand for 50% of the then retail price, 12 month sold).
They are still not better than my 45 year old speakers, different, as good, maybe. But I can live with them and that is all that matters.
I think selecting your choice is harder now than ever. Audio memory is poor. You can't walk into one demo and then go across town to another demo and make any real sensible distinctions between two high quality systems. Even side by size one may be better with some music but not on all choices. Fewer places can offer any A/B comparisons as they do not stock the models and can't order them in for a demo with just a potential sale of just one of system.
At the ultra high end I would always short list Linn, Naim, Meridian, some Dynaaudio, Dali and Kii and am still tempted to get in to test Buchardt speakers to hear if they really are 17-40kHz and the Cabasse The Pearl Pelegrina Wireless Speaker 10-27KHz when most are more likely to be 30/40-23kHz.
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