Gents,
I am looking to upgrade my stereo speakers. I am currently using a self made Seas Scanspeak set (called 'the standard'). They are quite good and have awesome lows but I am looking for more refinement in the highs. I have very sensitive hearing (I hear high pitched sounds very well that my friend and colleagues can't hear at all). The 'standard' set me back about 750 USD in materials.
Although I am building a 5.1 set, my main priority for quality of sound is for music which I listen to in stereo.
My current total set are 'the standard' fronts, a self made VIFA center speaker and I just added two Monitor Audio RS1 speakers as rears. I was blown away by the sound from these little speakers, certainly at the price.
Now for the question. Whilst listening to several speakers and reading reviews. I am tempted to go higher and higher into the high end speakers. For me spending anything up from 2500 USD on speakers is still very frightening.
I used to think it made sense to spend around the same amount on speakers as on your amp. So that would give me a budget of around 1600 USD only counting the 1080 and a little over 3000 USD if I include the cost of the 1056. What sounds fair to you guys? What would you consider a balanced cost of amp and speakers and can you recommend speakers with very refined highs in that budget?
Thanks for any suggestions!
Lennart
I am looking to upgrade my stereo speakers. I am currently using a self made Seas Scanspeak set (called 'the standard'). They are quite good and have awesome lows but I am looking for more refinement in the highs. I have very sensitive hearing (I hear high pitched sounds very well that my friend and colleagues can't hear at all). The 'standard' set me back about 750 USD in materials.
Although I am building a 5.1 set, my main priority for quality of sound is for music which I listen to in stereo.
My current total set are 'the standard' fronts, a self made VIFA center speaker and I just added two Monitor Audio RS1 speakers as rears. I was blown away by the sound from these little speakers, certainly at the price.
Now for the question. Whilst listening to several speakers and reading reviews. I am tempted to go higher and higher into the high end speakers. For me spending anything up from 2500 USD on speakers is still very frightening.
I used to think it made sense to spend around the same amount on speakers as on your amp. So that would give me a budget of around 1600 USD only counting the 1080 and a little over 3000 USD if I include the cost of the 1056. What sounds fair to you guys? What would you consider a balanced cost of amp and speakers and can you recommend speakers with very refined highs in that budget?
Thanks for any suggestions!
Lennart
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