Bookshelf/Monitors with the deep bass of floorstanders?

[Praetorian]

Heya,

I'm moving my listening room from my loft conversion into a new study downstairs and having a slight dilemma when it comes to sound setup.

What I'm after: Deep bass, clarity of elements/vocals, compact package.
Sources: Xonar DG output or some form of DAC (not looked at this yet) from either FLAC/320KBPS files
Usage: Music (primarily) but also gaming and movies - when I'm not working
Budget: Maximum of £500, therefore ruling out the JBL setup

Currently I've got a pair of Acoustic Solutions AV120 MK2 floorstanders that I absolutely adore, especially considering that they're 10 years old and a budget model, hooked into a Yamaha AV amp. This gives me enough to vibrate the floor with any house/trance tracks that I have in my collection (yes, I'm a bass head). Unfortunately the room I'm going to physically doesn't have the space to have those as well as a 2 meter desk in it so looking at new options.

So I've been going around and around looking at different options ... Active monitor speakers, active monitors including separate sub, bookshelf speakers etc. but can't seem to find something that's going to work for me.

Let me give you a few ideas of what I've been looking at:
2x JBL LSR305 Active monitors with/without sub (~£650)
2x RCF Ayra SIX's with Swissonic Sub10 (~£450)
2x Presonus Eris E5 with Presonus Temblor T8 sub (~£460)

So far it's looking like monitors (5" voice coil) with a subwoofer will give me exactly what I want of being able to let me "feel" the music including the subbass but also let me enjoy the clarity of music.

Anybody got any further thoughts on it? It's a lot of money to go shelling out on a system, especially considering what I currently having but it's worth it in the long run considering how much music I do actually listen to.

Cheers

 

[Praetorian]

Good to hear a vote of confidence for the Eirs 5

I did look at the Rokit's but I guess I've been "swayed" away from them after negative comments about them. Think that is mainly from the producers though, as they don't like the colourful response, whereas a casual listener I'd love them as their made for EDM/House etc.

Just the tough choice as always what to push the button on hehe.

 

[Praetorian]

Thanks for all of the input!

I went back to the drawing board on this and managed to get a figure of 200mm either side of the space available. A quick look around and Richer Sounds had a set of open box Cambridge Audio SX80's which fit in exactly that space. All setup on the Yamaha AV amp and now the place is back to rocking with floor rocking bass

 

[Praetorian]

Yep. Let it do an auto setup first using the optimiser mic and then adjusted the crossover as it'd been set to large. Glad I stuck with floor standers even though monitors/sub would have been an interesting experience. Thank you for the sanity check though, really appreciated

 

[Praetorian]

HAHA, cheers! Thankfully it's in a newly renovated outbuilding (old coal shed converted), attached to the side of my house. Have done checks with me and other people and once you step into the house, you can hear the mid/top end but zero bass. Step back into the outbuilding and then the bass comes back.

Still need to do some treatment on the room, as the walls are bare and a lot of echo, but it's like it was built into a basstrap without realising it

 

[Praetorian]

They're absolutely beautiful speakers to look at and admire ... and from the price, probably an awesome sound ... just a little out of my price range at the moment

 

[Praetorian]

£500 for those?!? That's criminal! But good for us that don't have huge excessively bulging wallets

I'm envious ... shall enjoy these and then may upgrade sooner than I thought! Will probably do an AMP upgrade at the same time if I ever do move upwards in the world