Hi everyone,
While I have been following this forum for quite some time now, I never had the opportunity to post here. However, I am now at a loss as to which speaker I should choose for myself and hoped I could have some advice here.
I am currently looking to purchase a stereo set up, my room and wife won't accommodate a 5.1 system..., to be used 50% for music and 50% for films/games... Given my budjet and the price here in Japan, I was looking at speaker like Monitor Audio RX8 or Dali Ikon 6 mkII. However, I finally found some second hand shops and was able to demo several upper range speakers for a similar price such as Dynaudio Excite X32 and B&W 805s.
Those two speakers were so far the closest to my taste, the B&W 805s having great vocals, and a wide imaging and details but lack of course some extension on the bottom end. The dynaudio seemt to offer a good comprise and seems to be good all around speaker with a nice presentation. So far, given that I listened to them in two different shops on different albums, I could not say which one I preferred but could clearly say that compare to several other models I tried in the same price range they were the best suited to my test.
Since I am living in an appartement in Tokyo, I am not looking for speakers producing loads of bass. Nevertheless, I would like the speakers to be able to sound well in stereo only set up for movies since I will surely not be able to add a sub-woofer later on.
I would like to have your thoughts on how those two speakers compare knowing that I will be pairing them with a couple of Emotiva UPA-1 and listen to various kind of music : classical, jazz, rock, some pop and even some electronic music.
Thank you in advance for your useful comments
While I have been following this forum for quite some time now, I never had the opportunity to post here. However, I am now at a loss as to which speaker I should choose for myself and hoped I could have some advice here.
I am currently looking to purchase a stereo set up, my room and wife won't accommodate a 5.1 system..., to be used 50% for music and 50% for films/games... Given my budjet and the price here in Japan, I was looking at speaker like Monitor Audio RX8 or Dali Ikon 6 mkII. However, I finally found some second hand shops and was able to demo several upper range speakers for a similar price such as Dynaudio Excite X32 and B&W 805s.
Those two speakers were so far the closest to my taste, the B&W 805s having great vocals, and a wide imaging and details but lack of course some extension on the bottom end. The dynaudio seemt to offer a good comprise and seems to be good all around speaker with a nice presentation. So far, given that I listened to them in two different shops on different albums, I could not say which one I preferred but could clearly say that compare to several other models I tried in the same price range they were the best suited to my test.
Since I am living in an appartement in Tokyo, I am not looking for speakers producing loads of bass. Nevertheless, I would like the speakers to be able to sound well in stereo only set up for movies since I will surely not be able to add a sub-woofer later on.
I would like to have your thoughts on how those two speakers compare knowing that I will be pairing them with a couple of Emotiva UPA-1 and listen to various kind of music : classical, jazz, rock, some pop and even some electronic music.
Thank you in advance for your useful comments