Jamo D-365 speakers - any good?

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I am looking for a pair of quality speakers to use in a 1,000 sq ft room to replace Tannoy Mercury V4 floorstanders which sound thin and tinny in the big room. So they need to have decent sized bass cones. I'll be powering them a Pioneer A400 and using a Sonos Connect zone player as the source. I don't need to play loud - this is for an office not a party. But I'd like a decent quality sound.

Does anyone know if Jamo D-365 speakers are any good? Would they be an improvement on the Tannoy Mercury V4 floorstanders?

 

[Frank Harvey]

They'll definitely fill the room better, and should make more of the power available from the A400. Although they're pretty efficient (if I recall correctly), I would look at a more powerful amplifier as you don't want the Pioneer struggling, which will only result in a compressed sound that will become edgy. I would also look at adding a DAC to the Sonos box as its own internal DAC isn't the greatest, and is only going to add to the less then well refined sound that the Jamos will display.

If you want to improve quality, get a good DAC for the Sonos first - otherwise you'll just be trying to improve on a less than perfect signal coming from the source.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the tips!

How do you think the Jamo D-365's compare to vintage models such as Goodmans Magisters, Kilpsch Cornwalls, Yamaha NS1000's, Celestion Ditton 66's, EV Sentry III's, Altec Model 19's, Cerwin Vega VS10s? Seems the Jamo's go on ebay for under £100. Probably more for the vintage models?

 

[Frank Harvey]

I'm not that old... :rofl:

 

[Anonymous]

lol! Yeah these vintage speakers are probably older than me. So I'm a bit nervous about buying kit that old. But if they're genuinely going to sound better then I'm willing to try!

 

[Anonymous]

1000 sq.ft!? That's not a room, that's a hall!

 

[lindsayt]

That's why I've been recommending that he try speakers with some pedigree from use in theatres, cinemas, gospel singing type church halls.

I don't know how the Jamo D-365's compare to other speakers. Whereabouts do you live round_midnight? Would you like to host a speaker bake-off / get together of owners of speakers that might sound good in your room? I'd be happy to pop round with a pair of large speakers if you live close to West Yorkshire.

 

[Anonymous]

Kind offer but I'm down in London!

Actually the room is an office with about 20 people - and I'm also wondering whether 2 speakers is the right set up. We'll mainly be playing music at a background level. Would we be better off with a multi speaker system to keep eveyone relatively equidistant to a speaker?

 

[Crossie]

+1 I agree that a multi speaker pro audio set up would be better.

I take it that all 20 of your staff want background music and all will agree on what to play and how loud. Personally, I would hate to have other peoples' choice of music forced on me all day. Just a thought... :shifty:

 

[jaguar4321]

Hi,

I just bought a nice pair of D365's, i left them in my garage until my newly purchased Pioneer SA-508 arrived in the post but could not resist in hooking them up to my 5 year old low powered & cheap Cambridge audio amp, the 365's sounded terrible, no bass etc, should have waited! anyway the Pioneer has landed and i will get them hooked up to the 365's over the weekend, Hope the Pioneer does a better job than the Cambridge!!!

Cheers, Peter

 

[jaguar4321]

Hi,

I just bought a nice pair of D365's, i left them in my garage until my newly purchased Pioneer SA-508 arrived in the post but could not resist in hooking them up to my 5 year old low powered & cheap Cambridge audio amp, the 365's sounded terrible, no bass etc, should have waited! anyway the Pioneer has landed and i will get them hooked up to the 365's over the weekend, Hope the Pioneer does a better job than the Cambridge!!!

Cheers, Peter

 

[PKRipper]

Hi,i used a pair for a while in a large wood panelled room.They need a quality amp with lots of current.I was constantly replacing the tweeter coils on mine due to the amp clipping.I added a power amp to the system and boom.. they rocked,proper deep bass without any stress on the top end x