Which Speakers?

Castiel · 11 Jul 2011 at 21:49

Mordaunt Short Alumni 2 or Gale Silver Monitors.

I have just basically been given a brand new pair of Mordaunt Short Alumni 2 speakers due to a retailer being a thoroughly good sport when I queried a price drop of an AV Receiver I purchased just days before. (technically they did not have to do anything, yet they gave me goods equal to the price drop which included the Alumni's)

What I want to know is, are the Mordaunt Shorts better quality than the Silver Monitors I currently have hooked up to a Cambridge Audio Topaz AM5 stereo amp which is used for my PC. My sound-card is the Essence STX.

Is it worth swapping out the Gales for the Mordaunts and using the Gales elsewhere?

staffyuk · 11 Jul 2011 at 22:13

might be better to ask over at avforums or the yank site head-fi.org with them been more hi-fi realated than pc . sorry can't help more, some 1 may help but think u get more of a responce there

Somnambulist · 11 Jul 2011 at 22:58

AVF would be the better bet. I think ultimately if you can try both, do it and see what your ears think, since they are the ultimate judge.

Castiel · 11 Jul 2011 at 23:14

I can try both (when the Alumni's arrive), I was just wondering which were of better quality and if anyone knew offhand.

Marsman · 11 Jul 2011 at 23:32

Looking at the specs, the Gales seem to go lower. Rated at 63Hz , whereas the Alumni's are 100Hz. Alumni's are designed be satellite speakers paired with a subwoofer, whether or not they offer better overall sound quality though, well I guess you will soon find out.

kingbal · 12 Jul 2011 at 13:44

I used to have a pair of silver monitors and they had a fair bit of punch.

If you've got an AV receiver and are using it with 5.1 for example, might be worth using the MS's for AV and using the Gales for music in another setup.

Castiel · 12 Jul 2011 at 18:38

kingbal said:
I used to have a pair of silver monitors and they had a fair bit of punch.

If you've got an AV receiver and are using it with 5.1 for example, might be worth using the MS's for AV and using the Gales for music in another setup.

I have Kef 3005SE in a 7.1 which are superior to both the Gales and Alumni's. I might chuck them into a 9.1 setup if nothing else comes up.