Floor standing speakers recommendation

shankly1985

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Hi
I want to buy two floor standing speakers for my Denon AVRX2500H any recommendations for price range if £100 each speaker?

I want to come away from 5.1 due to change in my room. Do I still require a sub? And can I get away from using a centre speaker?

So basically I just want good stereo sound.
 
shankly1985 said:
Hi
I want to buy two floor standing speakers for my Denon AVRX2500H any recommendations for price range if £100 each speaker?
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Did you mean £100 for each indididual speaker, so £200 a pair?

Definitely look 2nd hand at this price point. Plenty of decent speakers available;

Q Acoustics 3050
Mission M34
Mission M74i
Mission 773
Monitor Audio Bronze BX5
B&W 602.5 S3

These are just speakers that I'm familiar with myself, but there are plenty of others out there.

If your budget is £100 a pair you'd probably be better going with a standmount speaker instead of a floorstander.

Subwoofer not essential but is definitely nice to have.
 
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For movies it will be as means pushing full range to speakers, and speakers in your price range won't be full range capable, also pushing avr harder. Increasing distortion lowering sound quality.

For CD music floorstanders are fine but once you are watching action movies it'll just be too much.

Even with my old £1000 tower speakerd which reached a decent 36hz, they simply distorted when asked to reproduce the full range signal. and that was with dedicated 200w rotel THX ultra power amplifiers which are several classes above that low range Denon. A sub helped immensely to reduce that.
 
hornetstinger said:
Increase your budget. £100 floorstanders are going to be very low quality

For movies it's still recommended to use a sub.

You can get away with a center but I'd recommend a center
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agw_01 said:
Did you mean £100 for each indididual speaker, so £200 a pair?

Definitely look 2nd hand at this price point. Plenty of decent speakers available;

Q Acoustics 3050
Mission M34
Mission M74i
Mission 773
Monitor Audio Bronze BX5
B&W 602.5 S3

These are just speakers that I'm familiar with myself, but there are plenty of others out there.

If your budget is £100 a pair you'd probably be better going with a standmount speaker instead of a floorstander.

Subwoofer not essential but is definitely nice to have.
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I should be more clear £200 total.
 
shankly1985 said:
Should I maybe look into just getting a sound bar instead?
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You say you want to come away from 5.1, but what do you presently have?

Why not just try it as a 3.1 system for a start?


If you are using tiny "home cinema in a box" style speakers at the minute, the other option could just be to upgrade the left and rights to some slightly more capable bookshelf speaker, and appropriate stands, rather than actual floorstanders? (whilst maintaining your sub) e.g
www.richersounds.com

Wharfedale Diamond 9.0 (Black)

Shop for Wharfedale Diamond 9.0 Black Speaker Pair with Richer Sounds for a 6 Year Guarantee, expert advice and Lowest Prices Guaranteed
www.richersounds.com www.richersounds.com
 
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Armageus said:
You say you want to come away from 5.1, but what do you presently have?

Why not just try it as a 3.1 system for a start?


If you are using tiny "home cinema in a box" style speakers at the minute, the other option could just be to upgrade the left and rights to some slightly more capable stand mounts, and appropriate stands, rather than actual floorstanders? e.g
www.richersounds.com

Wharfedale Diamond 9.0 (Black)

Shop for Wharfedale Diamond 9.0 Black Speaker Pair with Richer Sounds for a 6 Year Guarantee, expert advice and Lowest Prices Guaranteed
www.richersounds.com www.richersounds.com
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Currently using tannoy sfx 5.1 but my sub has broken. I am currently moving into a small room for the PC gaming etc
On my far wall will be the TV but I want this to be very basic TV/sound

This will be used for sim racing along with watching some TV/football

So I am not looking to be blown away I do still want some good sound.

I didn't really think about just setting up the left and right speakers and see how it sounds.

Edit

Thanks I will check that link out. I just figured since I going with stereo maybe floor standing would be the best option.
 
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Hello little update.

I got delivered today, build quality is impressive. Not had a chance to set these up yet due to the room needing some adjustments.

Wharfedale Diamond 9.CS Walnut Centre​

Wharfedale Diamond 9.1 Speakers Walnut (Pair)​

Wharfedale Diamond SW-150 Walnut Subwoofer​


Little Subwoofer question, I will be attaching these to Denon AVRX2500H. The centre speaker Frequency Range: 70 - 24KHz and the left and right is Frequency response (Hz): 50 - 24,000

Should I set the sub to 50hz? Something I have just noticed I been running my Denon at 8oms with old 6ohms speakers all this time opps I guess I should read the manual next time.
I have now sorted that out for these 6ohms speakers.

I went over my recommendation price but I wanted something that would last abit longer and tbh I just love the build finish. Hoping they sound as good as they look.
These will be used for movie, music and gaming mostly sim racing on the TV.
 
shankly1985 said:
Hello little update.

I got delivered today, build quality is impressive. Not had a chance to set these up yet due to the room needing some adjustments.

Wharfedale Diamond 9.CS Walnut Centre​

Wharfedale Diamond 9.1 Speakers Walnut (Pair)​

Wharfedale Diamond SW-150 Walnut Subwoofer​


Little Subwoofer question, I will be attaching these to Denon AVRX2500H. The centre speaker Frequency Range: 70 - 24KHz and the left and right is Frequency response (Hz): 50 - 24,000

Should I set the sub to 50hz? Something I have just noticed I been running my Denon at 8oms with old 6ohms speakers all this time opps I guess I should read the manual next time.
I have now sorted that out for these 6ohms speakers.

I went over my recommendation price but I wanted something that would last abit longer and tbh I just love the build finish. Hoping they sound as good as they look.
These will be used for movie, music and gaming mostly sim racing on the TV.
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In the avr set all speakers to small 80hz. Set subwoofer lpf to 120hz. On the subwoofer itself set the crossover dial to maximum

Run auto calibration the manually change crossovers back to small 80
 
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shankly1985 said:
Hi
I want to buy two floor standing speakers for my Denon AVRX2500H any recommendations for price range if £100 each speaker?

I want to come away from 5.1 due to change in my room. Do I still require a sub? And can I get away from using a centre speaker?

So basically I just want good stereo sound.
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If you can find some, TDL RTL3s sound great and are bass monsters for floorstanders (there are a pair for £120 on the bay right now for example). Not the be all in detail, but if you can find some they are really fun speakers, and would potentially reduce your need for a Sub, until you started getting towards serious subs, as my pair could audibly and noticeably hit 30Hz.
 
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Alexrose1uk said:
If you can find some, TDL RTL3s sound great and are bass monsters for floorstanders (there are a pair for £120 on the bay right now for example). Not the be all in detail, but if you can find some they are really fun speakers, and would potentially reduce your need for a Sub, until you started getting towards serious subs, as my pair could audibly and noticeably hit 30Hz.
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Transmission line? Apparently very good low bass from small drivers, but drawback is they can't play as loud or something? They seem efficient enough

TDL Electronics RTL 3 Reflex Transmission Line Loudspeaker Manual | HiFi Engine

www.hifiengine.com www.hifiengine.com

I hard transmission line I think they had small drivers, yet produced bass similar to a much bigger floorstander.
 
hornetstinger said:
Transmission line? Apparently very good low bass from small drivers, but drawback is they can't play as loud or something? They seem efficient enough

TDL Electronics RTL 3 Reflex Transmission Line Loudspeaker Manual | HiFi Engine

www.hifiengine.com www.hifiengine.com

I hard transmission line I think they had small drivers, yet produced bass similar to a much bigger floorstander.
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Yes, they were fantastic, and they went plenty loud! Not the most subtle or the most refined (the Mission 753's I had had much smoother mid) but they were a really fun all round speaker, which went much lower than they had any right to!
Certainly a good shout for someone looking to avoid a subwoofer at least in the early days, as you'd need something with decent oomph, certainly a proper, dedicated AV/HiFi grade Subwoofer, to do better.

The only reason they went away is I no longer had room for them when I moved house.
 
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