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[Bibbs]

Okay, I need a new set of Speakers. I want something quite punchy with a bit of bass.

Got a couple of hundred to spend.

Any suggestions?

Know any good review sites?

There is a local Ritcher Sounds, but they can only talk about the stuff on the sales floor.

[Fidgits]

B&O

[RossP]

True...

[Fidgits]

aye.

just get to a Bang & Oulsfen shop, talk to their assistant and he'll tell you what's best (or in budget)....

[Chyownster]

B and O ftw, got a full system at home sounds ace looks ace

[Bibbs]

I've already got my old school Sony kit ..

Amp, Tuner, CD, DVD, MD .. I'm just after a pair of Speakers ..

Looking at Mordaunt Short 914 Black .. £200 on Ritcher sounds.

Then get a pre-amp and a sub at a later date.

[Fidgits]

just get a pair of B&O Speakers...

its about quality AND quanitity!

[jaxx]

B&O!

B&W (Bowers and Wilkins).... hand crafted by the gods of audible pleasure ;)

i strongly recommend the 802 (800series) floor standers. If you can fit 4 of them in each corner of your room youll be laughing.

Failing that the 600series 'bookshelf' Speakers can easily help to add front or rear fill if space is limited.

http://www.bwspeakers.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/global.main

Oh and i strongly disagree with Richer Sounds, look up the Yellow Pages and find an independant audio specialist and help the little guys who KNOW what theyre on about. The place i go to can never help you enough and you can sit in the test room and listen to an endless amount of Speakers to your hearts content

[Johndcfc]

B&O!

B&W (Bowers and Wilkins).... hand crafted by the gods of audible pleasure ;)

i strongly recommend the 802 (800series) floor standers. If you can fit 4 of them in each corner of your room youll be laughing.

Failing that the 600series 'bookshelf' speakers can easily help to add front or rear fill if space is limited.

http://www.bwspeakers.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/global.main

Oh and i strongly disagree with Richer Sounds, look up the Yellow Pages and find an independant audio specialist and help the little guys who KNOW what theyre on about. The place i go to can never help you enough and you can sit in the test room and listen to an endless amount of speakers to your hearts content

This man knows what he's talking about

B&W are pure quality - not sure how they compare to B&O, all I know about them is they make cool looking stereos, remote control rotating tv's and overpriced phones!

Only trouble with B&W is everywhere is locked down on price so you can't get a decent price on T'Internet.

[chrisb]

Ive got Kef Speakers all round and the sound quality from the is very good and my brother has a full mission setup and again the sound is quality!

Should be able to pick up some tidy Speakers on your budget!

CB

[LORD_ED]

i have mordant short and tannoy, all depends what u want

[Karma Supra]

B&O are a waste opf space... style over sustinance.. sure they are not bad and have a nice sound, but they are not as good as people think they are, and they are not as good as the price tag shoud suggest!!!!

My Speakers are floor standing accoustic energy ones (Bi wired on a Sony ES amp), they have smallish metal cones with a lot of travel, they won't distort at all, untill you push them LOTs, then the cone coils hit the end stops and pop! (however before this point a picture had actually fallen off the wall, so its not really "normal" listening volume!)

I bought mine Ex display from audio T in reading, they seem a good store and are not as annoyingly sales motivated as ritcher sounds (they will sell you anything, as long as its on offer at that time)

I also reccomend the B&W (I always thought it was black and white????) stuff... nice "warm sound" I was actually looking about to buy some when the display AEs popped up.. I liked them and ended up with them purely because of the price/saving!

[Bibbs]

Looking about the Mordaunt Shorts are lookingthe best option ..

Either the Avant 902i - bookshelf

or the MS914 - floor standers

Both bi-wireable ..

May look into a new av amp to run the Speakers, and then use my old amp to run a sub.

[Chyownster]

B and O look fit tho

[Bibbs]

Hmm, okay.

To open this up a bit, I've been looking now at a full AV system.

Mission do a nice package of :

M34i, M33i, M3C2i & M3AS for £700.00 .. then get a Sony AV amp (to match the rest of my kit) for £300 ..

then I'll have a full surround sound system ..

[Johndcfc]

Hmm, okay.

To open this up a bit, I've been looking now at a full AV system.

Mission do a nice package of :

M34i, M33i, M3C2i & M3AS for £700.00 .. then get a Sony AV amp (to match the rest of my kit) for £300 ..

then I'll have a full surround sound system ..

If your after a full surround system I'd get one of these....

http://www.panasonic.co.uk/home-cinema-sys...cht17/index.htm

It doesnt go ear-shatteringly loud like the old system I had (B&W 600 S2 front, rear and centre Speakers with a Sony DB940 amp) but it still packs a punch - plus once wall mounted it takes up no space and looks the dogs bo**ocks with a plasma.....

[jaxx]

what amps you got ben?

ive been using a Denon PMA350SE for a long while, a bit short winded but it does shake a small room!

ideally id love it feeding a couple of power amps :D

[Bibbs]

My full setup :

Sony :

TA-FB940R - Amp

CDP-XE530 - CD

MDS-JE530 - MD

DVP-S525D - DVD

ST-SB920 - Tuner

SEQ-411 - GEquiliser

Then looking at a STR-DB895D AV Reciever .. But then can I use my current amp at all?

[GiJoe90]

Good call Rob

B&W (Bowers and Wilkins) are by far the finest Speakers and you wouldn't be disappointed. I have a pair!! DM 602's on some sturdy Apollo A4 Stands. I do also have a Warfdale 150w 12" Sub as I like lots of bass!! I'd agree with Rob about getting floorstanders if you want some nice Speakers with punch and bass in the same package.

It depends what you are after though Ben. I have a seperate system I use for audio stuff (Top of the range Sony ES seperates) running stereo B&W Speakers and sub. Then I have a set up for TV/DVD/surround (Sony 6.1 S-master amp running Tannoy satellite speakers) Both completely different but both excellent.

If you want a really sexy surround amp with balls (Sony STR-DA300ES in champagne Gold . I may have one up for sale soon

Joe

P.S If you know what you want, check out E-bay. I got a beautiful, mint unmarked Sony SACD player to match my set up for a great price.

[Bibbs]

Joe,

Tempted to do as you and have 2 separate systems.

But, how can I power a sub off a std separate setup?

I need another amp and a sub .. and how can I find out if an amp features a "pass through" to another amp ?

[GiJoe90]

Joe,

Tempted to do as you and have 2 separate systems.

But, how can I power a sub off a std separate setup?

I need another amp and a sub .. and how can I find out if an amp features a "pass through" to another amp ?

My sub has a built in 150w amplifier so it doesn't take any drain away from the amp. Obviously needs to be plugged in! Just runs from the sub trigger output on the amp.

I'm guessing pass through means coupling amps up for more power? You can get good pre-amp/power-amp packages. Rotel do some real nice stuff (Yes I have a Rotel amp!).

My Set ups: Proper music Hi-Fi

CD: SCD-XA333ES (Sony)

MD: MDS-JB930 (Trying to upgrade to ES!)

Tuner: STD-777ES (Sony)

Amp: Rotel RA972

Speakers: B&W DM602 S2

Sub: Warfdale Topaz 12" 150W

Surround Sound Stuff

CD: HAR-LH500 (Sony)

AMP/Tuner: STR-DB900 (Sony)

DVD: DVP-NS92V (Sony)

Speakers: Tannoy EFX5.1

Sub: Tannoy 8" 100W

Joe

Man I need shares in Sony!!

[Bibbs]

Need to have a look at mine .. not sure if it's got a sub output ..

And yeah, the pass through is what I did with the cars amps. Passing the sub signals through to a 2nd amp ..

[nrgizerbunny]

Celestion A1's! they are the mutts, i know i've got a pair.

although depends on how powerful your amp is. Remember to check the impedence of your Speakers and match them to your amp

[TheNissanMan]

as mentioned earlier KEF Eggs are superb, link them up to a decent AMP{ and sub and your laughing, would beware of the KEF Subs as they tend to need repairing regularly though...

[System~G]

Forget domestic stuff.

What you want is what most music is recorded on. A decent set of professional reference studio monitors

Yamaha NS10's are found in nearly every studio.

Or pretty much anything by Dynaudio from BM15 up B)

Alesis, Genelec and JBL aren't bad either