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Shame, the Q Acoustics are awesome 
Though I got the Denon X3200W to power them.
Though I got the Denon X3200W to power them.
Getting back into movie surround sound... best bang for buck?
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Shame, the Q Acoustics are awesome
Nice man... how do you find them? Did you post a mini review anywhere on the forum that I can read?
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To be honest I'm no audiophile, I just read what other audiophiles think in reviews.
It's considerably better than my Kef 2005.1 egg speakers though. I tend to use them more for Blu-rays and gaming than music. Spotify sounds great as well though.
It's considerably better than my Kef 2005.1 egg speakers though. I tend to use them more for Blu-rays and gaming than music. Spotify sounds great as well though.
You don't need to be an audiophile to give your opinions mate, far form it! How do you find them for higher quality music (non-Spotify)?
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Thanks but I have now got my heart set on the Monitor Bronze system and the sub gets very good feedback.
Go for it! Great speakers and look nice in Walnut... I have the older white cone versions and the also the rears and their also really good and come with a mounting template so easy to put in wall....
P.s I don't have sub and don't miss it....
Cheers, I'm more excited about them the more I read. You have the the floorstanders then?
Sadly I can't put anything in a wall... I live in a rented apartment.
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Yep I have the floorstanders and I can't fault them...when I added the rears it seemed to add more bass to whole thing anyway so did not bother with sub...but I'm sure it would be even better with....
Yeah, I think I shall go for the full package with sub all in one go if the discount is decent.
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MA = monitor audio below FYI.
my understanding is although MA sub is good BK subs will destroy it for the money.
My setup is 2 monitor audio BX6's (floor standers) with a matching centre speaker got all 3 for £220 collected (second hand off avforums worth about £1000 when new).
I then bough a yamaha 677 for around £175 delivered (only 3 months old second hand) which was around £550 when new.
I then got a BK XXLS400-DF for £330 delivered (1 month old never used by owner) which cost him £450.
I then bought MA BX2's for around £120 delivered second hand which were £279 when new to use as surround sound speakers
I then got some custom made speaker stands which were around £100+ when new for around £45 delivered second hand.
basically i ended up with a setup worth around £2400 when new for around £900 second hand.
i would look into avforums classifieds personally and buy whatever is local or can be delivered. you get a lot more for your money and your after bang for your buck.
as you can see my setup will blow away the setup in OP yet cost less.
my understanding is although MA sub is good BK subs will destroy it for the money.
My setup is 2 monitor audio BX6's (floor standers) with a matching centre speaker got all 3 for £220 collected (second hand off avforums worth about £1000 when new).
I then bough a yamaha 677 for around £175 delivered (only 3 months old second hand) which was around £550 when new.
I then got a BK XXLS400-DF for £330 delivered (1 month old never used by owner) which cost him £450.
I then bought MA BX2's for around £120 delivered second hand which were £279 when new to use as surround sound speakers
I then got some custom made speaker stands which were around £100+ when new for around £45 delivered second hand.
basically i ended up with a setup worth around £2400 when new for around £900 second hand.
i would look into avforums classifieds personally and buy whatever is local or can be delivered. you get a lot more for your money and your after bang for your buck.
as you can see my setup will blow away the setup in OP yet cost less.
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Yea some good deals can have, IF one is lucky enough to find them second hand. But the issue with that is always difficult to find good options or what you want during the time that you are looking around and prepare to buy.
My old man managed to find a 2nd hand older Monitor Audio Series Silver 5.0 (with Floor-standers for front) on avforums for £350!! Granted he had to drive around 3.5 hours round trip to pick it up, but it was totally worth it.
Personally, I wouldn't really buy stuff new a full price, but would rather wait for new gen is launch or near launch, and buy current/previous gen at EOL price which can be less than 50% of the original price!
I don't live in the UK so access to used goods (especially the more specialist brands) is very limited unless I can persuade someone to send overseas, and even then of something goes wrong it's doubly a pain. To buy used I have to either greatly limit my choices, and I'm not the type who likes living with things I'm not completely sold on, regardless of the potential savings.
As such, I'll go for a set of Monitor Bronze and am sure from everything that I have read and heard that I'll be very happy with them.
As such, I'll go for a set of Monitor Bronze and am sure from everything that I have read and heard that I'll be very happy with them.
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Definitely go for the floor standers, I went from MA BX2 to MA BX6 and there was a huge difference.
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I didn't have any issues.
I also had a 2 hour round trip maybe slightly longer to pick up the BX6's plus matching centre speaker. But for £220 all in I was saving many hundreds.
Stuff pops up on AVforums every hour. People are constantly selling. The guy I bought my kit off had 3 systems he was selling at the same time. Plenty of choice. I live in Scotland too where it's limited. Yet I managed to get all the above within a month or so.
You need to be prepared to scour and be patient for the right deals to come along. Keep checking every day it only takes 10 minutes.
Good to hear, thanks! Will go for the BX5 rather than BX6 though.
What do you think of their sound overall, is it neutral? Also how do they do at lower volumes?
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Good to hear, thanks! Will go for the BX5 rather than BX6 though.
What do you think of their sound overall, is it neutral? Also how do they do at lower volumes?
are you getting a sub?
the bronze 6's handle bass better.
also when it comes to setting a crossover point i heard halve an octave higher then the minimum for the speaker is best.
so each set of speakers will have a different threshold. for example the floorstanders could be 60hz and the rear speakers 100hz. i've plucked these numbers out of thin air. you need to calculate what half an octave higher than their minimum spec actually is.
you shouldn't set it to their minimum as usually they cannot handle it at higher volumes.
Another vote for second hand from AV Forums.
I bought Dali ikon 6 floorstanders and the matching centre for 350 (new price about 1000)
Mission 77DS dipole rears for 30 quid
Pioneer sc lx83 to power it all for 250 (was 2k new in 2011)
Sounds great for not much outlay
I bought Dali ikon 6 floorstanders and the matching centre for 350 (new price about 1000)
Mission 77DS dipole rears for 30 quid
Pioneer sc lx83 to power it all for 250 (was 2k new in 2011)
Sounds great for not much outlay
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Yup I'm planning on getting the full kit with sub as the discount should make it worth it. I'm pretty sure this half an octave wont be overly noticeable for the my uses and that the kit will work well together as it's designed to.
Yup I'm planning on getting the full kit with sub as the discount should make it worth it. I'm pretty sure this half an octave wont be overly noticeable for the my uses and that the kit will work well together as it's designed to.
This. I bought a Epson TW3200 & Denon AVRX4000 for a net cost of £550 via their classifieds, I didn't have to travel that far to collect them either. When new, both items cost over 3 times that. OK I've taken a gamble with no warranty on these, but I'm very pleased with both, if they go pop it would not that much different if I owned them for a number of years & the warranty would have run out anyway.
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Yup I'm planning on getting the full kit with sub as the discount should make it worth it. I'm pretty sure this half an octave wont be overly noticeable for the my uses and that the kit will work well together as it's designed to.
the kit is basically all the same range. no different to someone buying them all separately so long as the centre matches the front r and l the surrounds it doesn't matter what you use so long as it's comparable. it doesn't even need to be from the same make. so long as you use matching sets. so you couldn't buy 1 speaker for back r and then another for back l.
also setting thresholds is done by the user. the kit won't have them set up properly. it will just be stuck on default.
basically the amp could be used with any of a number of a million different speakers. therefore you have to set it up right for your speakers.
therefore yes you do need to set the thresholds yourself. and my advice would be to read up on how to do that.
I'm buying all monitor bronze so using different speakers doesn't factor into the equation anyway and is a moot point for me. But I'll set make an effort to set them up to correct levels etc when I get them.