New front speakers for home cinema and hifi - £1,500ish budget

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Hi All,

I'm upgrading my system and want some new floorstanders which are not too big, in terms of cabinet width/depth so I have been looking around and these are all possibilities, not listened to any but the Spendors, which blew me away. I know a couple of these are more than £1,500 but hoping my firendly local dealer, who stocks all of these will do me a deal, if I buy an AV amp off them as well, thinking about going for the new Denon 1911 and a new blue ray player, not sure what to do there but the new Sony, 470/570 with integrated multimedia look interesting. My main hifi system is Cyrus, 8XPD (wxyz or whatever) so they need to be a good fit for that and also for home cinema. My room is not massive about 4m x 5m and so I don't need massive power, but I am looking for lots of detail and the ability to handle home cinema.

B&W CM9 SPEAKERS (PAIR)

PMC GB1i FLOOR STANDING SPEAKERS (PAIR)

PROAC STUDIO 140 MK2 SPEAKERS (PAIR) http://www.hifix.co.uk/sku2.lasso?SPENDOR-A6&item=9d226d301e5635c64a55616805e0063b

SPENDOR A6 SPEAKERS (PAIR)

Any suggestions, comments or welcome, looking to do the deed in the next month or so.

Thanks

 

[Frank Harvey]

Do you mean you're looking to use the AVR1911 as an add on processor to your hi-fi system? If so, this isn't possible, as the 1911 doesn't have any pre-outs other than the subwoofer.

 

[Anonymous]

Hi,

No I'll just piggy back two sets of speaker cables on, either use one set into one pair of terminals if they are bi-wireable or one set of banana plugs into the back of another set of banana plugs if not, two indipendant systems using the same speakers. Just like I do now.

Nothing wrong with that is there?

 

[Frank Harvey]

Two systems plugged into one speaker can lead to problems......

 

[Frank Harvey]

I stand corrected from earlier - the 1911 does have pre-outs for the front L&R - I was looking at the 1611 back panel

 

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I've been using the same set up, in terms of configuration for about 6 years now with my current system, just changed the amp last year, no issues so far, what issues do you think I could have? THe amps will never be on at the same time. What would you suggest? I have the Home Cinema kit under the TV and the hifi stuff on a seperate rack, so the amp and receiver are not close enough to link together other than via a 3M interconnect, I don't rally want to do this.

 

[Frank Harvey]

If you've been using it this way without any issues then all's well and good

 

[Anonymous]

I use Wilson Benesch Square Square Ones as my hi-fi/home cinema fronts and they work well close to the walls. I think I need a sub for home-cinema use but they are fantastic for hi-fi and work well with Cyrus. IF you want a matching centre they do one of those too but it is expensive and wide.

I would use a pre-out (if possible) from your home cinema amp to your Cyrus as the 8vs2 has an AV bypass option so you don't have to adjust 2 volume controls for home-cinema and Cyrus amp will improve home-cinema sound.

 

[Anonymous]

They are not a brand I had really considered, I'll take a look, thanks