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Speaker for low volume listening with high WAF

It's that time of life when the large home is no longer needed and a New Orleans French Quarter condo is more exciting. So I'll be saying good-bye to my Wilson watt puppy 7's, wonderful "Big Mac" MC2000 (get the tubes right and this amp is incredible), Hovland HP100, Dodson DAC, Sony SCD-1, Lector CDP 7TL and mucho other stuff I spent years perfecting with tube rolling. Now I'm looking for a very good speaker system that will complement a Luxman L-590AII integrated amp along with a single box cd player. I don't particularly like speakers that are overly warm but prefer accuracy, clarity, wide soundstaging and musical dynamics which the watt pup 7's serves up with the right equipment. I would be interested in hearing from others who live in smaller spaces and share a similar musical taste and bought speakers that mirror my musical taste. Prior to the watt pups (I've owned the 6 & 7's) I had ML Prodigy and Quad ESL 63 stats (fast & transparent but low WAF).
rickjames
scpetscott
47 posts
 
I had quad 63s, maggies, meadowlark, soliloquy and the speakers I enjoyed the most were anthony gallo adiva's that I got dirt cheap when Good Guys went under. I would check into some of Gallos new stuff. The Adiva TIs work beautifully on wall and in terms of fitting nicely into a condo and wife factor probably can't be beat.
chazzbo
1,006 posts
 
Oh yeah.Also check out Dali Helicon 300's.Best monitor they make and one tiere down in there line but a guy named Lapierre has an OFFICE system that uses a $12K Mac two chassis pre and 275 power amp plus whole slew of expensive Oval Analysis cables and he thought they matched.Dali's make a hell of a speaker.
Chazz
bokfudo
58 posts
 
ATC, I recently moved to the SCM 12 and have them close to the wall with no ill-effect (sealed design). I am so happy with them I doubt I will ever go to another brand (well never say never...). In short: accuracy, full bodied, dynamic (micro and macro) sound much larger then size implies. Good at any sound level. I hate speakers that sound constipated and for years I considered trying ATC's but hesitated when looking at their specs (low sensitivity, bass rated to the mid 60 HZ) but man was I off. There is no lack of bass, there is no hint of where the tweeter takes over, can't even get them to compress. I have them on a 100 Watt McCormack DNA 0.5 but rarely need to raise the volume to enjoy their dynamic capabilities.

I have tried over 15 brands of speakers including Vienna Acoustic Mahlers (they get silver), many Dynaudio's (they get bronze), legacy audio, paradigm, Meadowlark, mirage, monitor audio, totem,etc. I still give my ATC's the gold!
bongofury
1,160 posts
 
A mistress and an iPod.

I also am a big fan of ATC 7s with a nice amp.
rickjames OP
24 posts
 
Thanks for all the suggestions...I'm going to head for New Orleans next week to see what I can find at the 2 local high end stores with a short list of speakers that you all were kind enough to recommend.
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