dogn4u
Active Member
61Sprite's post hit home. My gut keeps telling me that a pair of floorstanding speakers with 10" minimum woofers will just sound better than a bookshelf/sub combination. Deep, clean, tight bass is critically important to me for listening, but of course I want the shimmer, sparkle, and snap of a good high end.
There's more - My studio apartment is relatively small overall, but has a nice big living area of about 18X32 feet square. Best of all, the room is not a square box full of parallel surfaces. It's upstairs, and has asymmetrical sloping eaves and variable ceiling height. I record myself and other musicians playing live in this room, and it's sonically incredible. my current home stereo sounds incredible, and you don't have to squat three feet from the rear corner to get good sound. Room shape is every bit as important as speakers. Thanks to the lack of parallel surfaces, there are no standing wave bass issues or other problems that occur in cube shaped rooms.
My plan was simple - a Jolida amp pushing a pair of Klipsch RF 7 IIs with my Dual TT plugged into the phono preamp of my Sansui receiver and then line out from the Sansui to the amp. . My Fender Blackface Deluxe Reverb is miked up with the fabulous AT 4047b mike. Various SM57s set up for drums and other amps. I know exactly what I want...the only problem is that those gorgeous RF 7 IIs might be just out of reach financially. Anyone want to spot me $900? Okay, okay, you can stop laughing now.
What are your thoughts on 2.1 systems? It makes me nervous that Klipsch speakers can be bought at BestBuy - though not the high end like the RF 7. I want to do this hifi amp/speaker thing ONCE. Am I right in thinking that two big, fat floor speaks will sound better than a 2.1 setup? I have zero interest in surround and all that.
There's more - My studio apartment is relatively small overall, but has a nice big living area of about 18X32 feet square. Best of all, the room is not a square box full of parallel surfaces. It's upstairs, and has asymmetrical sloping eaves and variable ceiling height. I record myself and other musicians playing live in this room, and it's sonically incredible. my current home stereo sounds incredible, and you don't have to squat three feet from the rear corner to get good sound. Room shape is every bit as important as speakers. Thanks to the lack of parallel surfaces, there are no standing wave bass issues or other problems that occur in cube shaped rooms.
My plan was simple - a Jolida amp pushing a pair of Klipsch RF 7 IIs with my Dual TT plugged into the phono preamp of my Sansui receiver and then line out from the Sansui to the amp. . My Fender Blackface Deluxe Reverb is miked up with the fabulous AT 4047b mike. Various SM57s set up for drums and other amps. I know exactly what I want...the only problem is that those gorgeous RF 7 IIs might be just out of reach financially. Anyone want to spot me $900? Okay, okay, you can stop laughing now.
What are your thoughts on 2.1 systems? It makes me nervous that Klipsch speakers can be bought at BestBuy - though not the high end like the RF 7. I want to do this hifi amp/speaker thing ONCE. Am I right in thinking that two big, fat floor speaks will sound better than a 2.1 setup? I have zero interest in surround and all that.