Speakers for super uniti

[Gasman]

HI All

Some advice please. I am running a super uniti together with a pair of B&W pm1s. This has been running over a year and I love it - However, I wondered into my local shop this weekend and they had a super uniti playing through a pair of Naim Ovator 400s. It sounded like night and day1

I can get the ovators about 1k off as ex demo but I am worried it may overpower the room - roughly 3m*4m. Also if I am upgrading is there some thing else out there I should listen to?

Thanks for any help

 

[kungula]

your room is really small. The Ovators 400 need more room to perform well. I would recommend you a speaker from Neat which should be perfect for the size of your room.

 

[spiny norman]

I would recommend you a speaker from Neat which should be perfect for the size of your room.

Such as these, praps? The late lamented one is usually fairly reliably on what does and doesn't go with Naim.

 

[CnoEvil]

You could try the flavour of the moment.....Kef LS50s. Would work well in a small room.

 

[altruistic.lemon]

Neat, but probably the Elites as a minimum. The Motives, though good, wouldn't really do the amp justice. Same comment for the Kefs.

 

[Bodfish]

Agree with Neat, add in Harbeth too; either the P3ESR or at a push in that room the M30.1.

 

[CnoEvil]

Neat, but probably the Elites as a minimum. The Motives, though good, wouldn't really do the amp justice. Same comment for the Kefs.

AL, have you heard the Kefs on a good amp?

 

[altruistic.lemon]

Only the MF M3i. But, seriously, a £3250 amp with £800 speakers?? Really is a waste of a good amp.

By the way, thought the Kef was OK, but I'm not a fan of their recent speakers.

Harbeth is another good choice.

 

[CnoEvil]

Only the MF M3i. But, seriously, a £3250 amp with £800 speakers?? Really is a waste of a good amp.

By the way, thought the Kef was OK, but I'm not a fan of their recent speakers.

Harbeth is another good choice.

I suggest you try them on a £3k amp and see if you still feel the same.

 

[altruistic.lemon]

Wouldn't be so silly, Cno .

 

[spiny norman]

The Motives, though good, wouldn't really do the amp justice. Same comment for the Kefs.

Clearly you're right: the person writing the review I referred to above is obviously entirely clueless, even though it seems he reviewed the Motives with a Supernait 2. :wall:

 

[CnoEvil]

Wouldn't be so silly, Cno .

Too late..........

 

[plastic penguin]

HI All

Some advice please. I am running a super uniti together with a pair of B&W pm1s. This has been running over a year and I love it - However, I wondered into my local shop this weekend and they had a super uniti playing through a pair of Naim Ovator 400s. It sounded like night and day1

I can get the ovators about 1k off as ex demo but I am worried it may overpower the room - roughly 3m*4m. Also if I am upgrading is there some thing else out there I should listen to?

Thanks for any help

PMC Twenty 22 sounds like cracking choice to me, assuming you can round the less than pretty lean.