From tiny Silverline's to slightly bigger PSB's

"What don't you like about the Minuet that you think the PSBs will improve?"

The Minuet is an over achiever, but it can't fill my large listening room. This is not the fault of the Minuet, it is user error in not matching a speaker to listening space. I'm guilty of this. For desktop, small to medium room, near field listening - the Minuet is an absolute joy to behold, a reference/recording monitor selling for a song. My search for a used speaker system for my large listening room that matches well with my Jolida JD 302 continues on..

Johnnyb53:

"If you really like the sound of the Minuet you might be able to fix this with a powered sub to offload the LF duties, increase overall radiating area and open up the Minuet's dynamic range."

Johnnyb53: Already doing this with my old PSB Subsonic 5i (powered). My listening space is b-i-g. I mean big as in 34 x 15 with elevated sloping ceiling and right side open to other rooms. Problem is my other rooms are too small to move my system into - it's either the cavern or the closet for me here.

I have wanted to sell for a year and a half and leave this redneck burg (but not possible until housing market recovers w/o giving my house away), and buy a home with a more appropriate listening area of say 20 x 15 or so. So, I either buy another speaker system that is more appropriate for my big listening area now (and also works well in a smaller listening area I move to in the future), or hold off and try to tweak what I have now until I can move. Speaker systems I have had my eye on are used: Devore Nines, Zu Essence, and PSB Synchrony's. It's probably best to wait until the reseller market matures anyway for these speakers, as few are going to be put up for sale by their original owners for a year or two at least. The speakers are still relatively new to the audio market.