My mate came around the other day because he wanted to try his Acoustic Energy AE1 Classics on the end of my SuperNait and now I think we're both going to end up spending a lot of money as a result.
My PMCs sound pretty damn good in isolation and they are much better in the bass department, but the little AE1s sounded absolutely sublime in the mid-range and upper frequencies. The amount of extra detail over the PMCs was quite remarkable. However we both realised that in all likelihood neither speaker was doing justice to the Naim.
So I think my mate is saving up for a Naim amp and a subwoofer now, and I'm thinking about saving for new speakers, and was hoping for suggestions of standmounters up to about £2/2.5k that would partner well with Naim and would build upon the mid-range qualities of the AE1s and the bass ability of the TB2+s.
They need to be standmounters as my lounge is fairly small (about 3.5m*3.5m) and practically speaking I could only have the speakers about 0.6-0.7m max from either back or side walls, so I think £2k+ floorstanders would be overwhelming. That said I'm used to the decent bass output of my PMCs and wouldn't want to lose that.
Shortlisted so far (mainly just because of price point, but I know the Neats are meant to be a good Naim match) are:
Neat Momentum 3i
Monitor Audio PL100
B&W 805D
Appreciate thoughts and additional suggestions!
(BTW having recently got the SuperNait purchase past the Mrs I'm not sure quite how I'm going to manage this!)
My PMCs sound pretty damn good in isolation and they are much better in the bass department, but the little AE1s sounded absolutely sublime in the mid-range and upper frequencies. The amount of extra detail over the PMCs was quite remarkable. However we both realised that in all likelihood neither speaker was doing justice to the Naim.
So I think my mate is saving up for a Naim amp and a subwoofer now, and I'm thinking about saving for new speakers, and was hoping for suggestions of standmounters up to about £2/2.5k that would partner well with Naim and would build upon the mid-range qualities of the AE1s and the bass ability of the TB2+s.
They need to be standmounters as my lounge is fairly small (about 3.5m*3.5m) and practically speaking I could only have the speakers about 0.6-0.7m max from either back or side walls, so I think £2k+ floorstanders would be overwhelming. That said I'm used to the decent bass output of my PMCs and wouldn't want to lose that.
Shortlisted so far (mainly just because of price point, but I know the Neats are meant to be a good Naim match) are:
Neat Momentum 3i
Monitor Audio PL100
B&W 805D
Appreciate thoughts and additional suggestions!
(BTW having recently got the SuperNait purchase past the Mrs I'm not sure quite how I'm going to manage this!)