Great sounding Bookshelf? Ideas, info? (1 Viewer)

[Scott_Hirsch]

Good evening

I am in the market for some great sounding bookshelf speakers. They will serve 2 purposes. 1) I want really good sounding speakers that serve music well. 2)Within a few months, when more cash becomes available, they will be utilized as rear speakers and I will buy some towers and the system will be 80% movies, 20% music.

I've auditioned Boston Acoustics, Totem. Also want to try B&W, Paradigm. I've also heard some great things about Quad IIL.

Any advise will be greatly appreciated. Can good sounding music bookself speakers even give good surround envelopment?

Scott

 

[Evan S]

Scott, what is your budget?

 

[Lam Nguyen]

Scott,

Might want to give the Paradigm atom, titans a listen.
The B&W 601 s3, 600 s3 are great as well.
These are afordable bookshelf that sounds good with music and serves great as surrounds.
I went with the 600 s3 (Nautilus Tweeter, Kevlar driver) for my surround speaker, they are built with brackets for wall hanging as well. Good Luck.

 

[Scott_Hirsch]

My budget is around $800 canadian; so what's that, $13 US? In all reality and world economic leverage aside, around $500 US tops.

 

[Jose G]

Which Bostons and what did you think of them? Of all those speakers auditioned, which did you like best and why?

 

[JordanS]

I have the B&W DM 601 S3 and I am very happy with the sound. I am running Adcom Seperates with them. The midrange is absolutley amazing-----

I've also demoed the Nautilus 805------and listening to "Comfortably Numb" got me a little teary-eyed on those------just beautiful sound IMO---