Mini Speakers for my Study to solve sound problems - Ideas wanted

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I've got small study (10ft x 12ft) with my Hi Fi set up in this. I've currently got some Gale Silver Monitor speakers which are on wall mounted brackets about 4ft off the floor. The speakers must be about 3ft from my head when i sit at my desk & the problem is that the sound seems too Bassey / slightly muffled. I now think I need to invest in some mini wall mounted speakers, which cab mounted higher up the wall and will hopefully give a better sound. I did have Gales mounted higher 3ft from the ceiling but the sound was awful.

Any ideas on this? and what speakers i should get - cheers

 

[plastic penguin]

What is your current system? How much d'you want to spend?

 

[Anonymous]

NAD 5440 CD player & Marantz Integrated Amp PM4200 - it's quite old.

Up to £200 if the sound is right

 

[plastic penguin]

This is a bit tricky. There aren't many speakers that can be wall mounted and fall into that price bracket.

Let me think for a while.

 

[plastic penguin]

Just had a quick browse on ebay. The likes of Wharfedale 9.1 would work well, although I'm not sure whether they'll significantly harden placed up against the wall.

If you could up your budget I would go for Proac Tablette or AVI Neutrons, but they are considerably more. The list is around £700 & £600 respectively.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks - do they fall into a totally different price bracket?

The Gale's are 27x17x17cm. I don't need tiny ones perhaps the size up - just need something that will improve the sound and I feel the Gale's are too big for what i need.

But sound is the real issue for me.

 

[plastic penguin]

The Wharfedales retail at about £170 and if you go to Richer Sounds you might be able to pick them up cheaper. The problem is the larger the speaker the chunkier the bass [usual rule of thumb] and make sure the speaker has a front firing port.

 

[Anonymous]

cheers

 

[drummerman]

Try JBL Control 1. A friend had some in his restaurant. Great fun and punchy with decent bass with a little bit of corner assistance. Alternatively source some Mordaunt Short MS10i's (or pearl editions). Lovely cheap compact with tight fast bass and epos engineering.

 

[plastic penguin]

Certainly I would plump for the Wharfedales. They should a really good match for your system.

 

[Anonymous]

I would usually say at this stage "Mission E30s" which can be found on ebay for £80 and they can be specced with Mission's own wall mounts, but mine just broke today, so I'm saying Wharfedale Diamonds all the way!

 

[professorhat]

Audioengine A2s - £110, active speakers so no amp required. They're tiny and astonishingly good sound comes from them!

 

[Anonymous]

thanks for all the advice

 

[Anonymous]

I have a study which is 12 x 8 ft and I use Gale Gold Monitors. They are in book cases, about 5 ft up from ground.

I would say try to test them in every imaginable position. My speakers aren't even parallel, but perpendicular. When I sit at my desk the left speaker points directly at my left ear. The right speaker is nearly directly behind my right ear and equidistant. They sound amazing, better than my £1k system, but worse than my £5k system. The treble could be slightly detailed, but they are so velvety, I don't care. I listen to them between 8 to 10 hours a day, five days a week.

I would advise test your speaker in every type of position, even it blows convention. I don't care about convention, only what sounds good.

I would love to see these gales tested, for someone else's opinion.

 

[Anonymous]

"Neutron" - without a doubt. They've gone down in price these days too.