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Originally Posted by pda_lover /forum/post/20845343
Friends,
I am here to seek some advice from experts here on the 5.1 system upgrade I am considering.
Budget:- USD 5K
Room size:- 11ft * 9 ft
Floor plan:- Attached
Receiver: Denon 2311
I am considering the following models and need your help to shortlist from the list.
B&W - 683 or CM8 or CM9, HTM61, 685 Surrounds, ASW 610XP Sub
DALI - IKON 7 system
DYNAUDIO - DM series
MONITOR AUDIO - GOLD GX 300 or GX 200 or RX 8 system
All comments are welcome and much appreciated.
Hello, do you listen to music? If the speakers are solely for movies and gaming, Dynaudio and MA are your safe bet. If you listen to 50/50 movies/music, I recommend you consider Dynaudio and Dali. Forget about the B&W speakers, they are laid back, slow and lack of details which are unsuitable for movies and most music genres, and are the most power hungry in the list.
Also in your floor plan it seems that you want floorstanders. If you have a sub or going to include a sub, bookshelf speakers are better choices as you can get bookshelf speakers one notch higher than the floorstanders from the same manufacturer if you can sacrifice some bass (which isn't a problem for your case as you will have a sub), but the bookshelf speakers will give you significantly better overall sound quality than the towers for you room size.
With your budget you can consider the Dynaudio Excite X32 floorstanders, or the new Dynaudio Focus bookshelf speakers with the respective matching centers instead.
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Originally Posted by pda_lover /forum/post/20848255
Thx bro, I have the same impression however since my AVR is Denon 2310 and Dynaudio being 4 ohms speaker, they are harder to drive and i am not in mood of changing my AVR hence a bit resistive on dynaudio....
also Dynaudio being expensive then others... so in my budget i can only go for DM series or excite fronts and rest of the system as DM
Dynaudio is NOT 4 ohms nominal. And Dynaudio more expensive?
Which dealer are you working with?
The DM speakers are actually the cheapest in your list. Also my another advice is if you limit your choices further by the impedance rating, your quest - in search of great speakers - will likely end with frustration. Watts is cheap nowadays, and good sounding speakers tend to be power hungry. Besides, many manufacturer specs are not accurate. For example Monitor Audio claims their BX2's speakers have a nominal impedance rating of 8 ohms, yet lab tests showed the actual nominal impedance no more than 5 ohms. On the other hand, Dynaudio humbly claims all their speakers have a nominal impedance of 4 ohms, yet independent lab tests showed most of their speakers have a nominal impedance rating of 6-10 ohms. For example, independent lab tests showed that their award winning Excite X12 speakers have nominal impedance of 10 ohms, not 4 ohms as the manufacturer humbly claims. You can consider 4 ohms the minimal impedance for all Dynes.
My advice is, a pair of Dynaudio Focus 160 bookshelf speakers at $1600 + Focus 210C Center at $1,800 will sound much better than most floorstanders at the same price point. You can usually get a discount of 10-15% for Dynaudio from most dealers. My Dynaudio C1s also sound much better and dig deeper than most floorstanding speakers at the similar price range. So unless you have serious reasons to buy floorstanders, please also consider bookshelf speakers which usually sound much better than rival floorstanders at the same price range, especially for your room size.
