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Reference 3a Grand veena or Duntech Sovereign

I have a pair of Grand veena now and have been offered a used pair of Duntech Sovereign at very reasonable price. I read many other reviews and found that its soundstage is superb and I also listen to them once at my friend's home who use its as main speaker for home theater system and it is amazing!) My room is very large about 20x40x8.5 ft and used for both HT and 2 channel listening because I do not have another room for seperate system. I'm impress with the sound of grand veena as well but due to space I cannot keep them both if I decide to replace the Sovereign in my room. One more thing I use ASR Emitter II exclusive integrated amplifier in my system. So I want your opinions and suggestions about how these two compared to each other and whether I should keep Grand veena or get legendary Duntech.
Please recommend me to support the decision.
teenoy

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tbg
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Wasitpon, if I recall correctly, John Dunlevy wanted no toe in. He was wrong as I recall. The speaker's drivers are in a curve to have the voice coils in the same line. I always found toe in improved the sound stage.

I would think a minimum of ten feet from both speakers would be minimum. I once heard them at CES in Macormick Place in Chicago in a 50' by 30' by 18' reinforced concrete room where we listened about 25' from them. I never heard them any better.

Measure the distance from between the woofers, which I think is where the tweeter is. Multiply by 1.65 and make that the distance to the side walls from the center of the speakers front panel. Multiply that distance by 1.65 and that is the distance from the front of the speakers to the back wall. Remember that if you use feet under them, you have to redo these calculations.
tbg
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I used to own Sovereigns as well as the later Black Knights. I love the Grand Veenas, especially their Murata supertweeter. You will not hear the extended top end that this driver gives to them on the Duntechs. I would give two warnings about the Sovereigns given their age-one check the surrounds and two, better parts are now available in the crossover. Finally, get a powerful amp for the Sovereigns. They are not efficient. Oh, an one final thought-their designer did not think they needed to be isolated from the floor given their 350 pound each weight. He was wrong.
tbg
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Wasitpon, what is the MC 1201 amp? I don't know much of your equipment but do know that the Sovereigns take power.
tbg
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Rgs92, thankfully the Grand Veenas sound nothing like Wilsons. They have a very real soundstage and very real on vocals. I have no idea why you would ask about buzzing.
tbg
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Wasitpon, they will work.

Another matter, is the use of feet or stands under the Sovereigns. Dunlevy never recommended the use of feet and I never did. They would have to be very substantial feet as each Sovereign weighs 350 pounds. I do suspect that they would benefit from the use of StillPoints component stands that I use under my Tidals.
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