Monitor Audio rx6 to silver 8 worth it?

metalmackey · 27 Jul 2016 at 22:22

As title really, I have silver 1s as sides and backs and kef r50's for atmos. Should I replace my older rx6 floorstanders with something from the newer silver range which my silver 1s are from? I was looking at the silver 8 as I listen to a lot of music as well as films.

Ta

metalmackey · 28 Jul 2016 at 16:57

Psycho Sonny said:
law of diminishing returns as always with these types of upgrades.

we cannot tell you if it's worth it to you. you will perceive and judge value for money completely differently.

IMO you would be better off saving up more and going for a much larger upgrade however depends on what you can get for your current set and how much your looking to spend on the new one.

what is your current set lacking that makes you want to upgrade?

I have BX6's which are a bassier version of the RX6 with BX6 focusing more on bass and the RX6 more on sound quality.

You already have a good set of floorstanders IMO, you will be paying lots for very little improvement.

Uou may be right

I just took off all my speaker grills and got a nice improvement for free LOL.
Dunno why removing made the speakers sound better though.

metalmackey · 29 Jul 2016 at 19:19

I cant have celling speakers so the up firing modules were my only option. I went for the r50s as they seemed to be the best in reviews and spec wise. The sound seems to envelop you a lot more and 3d sound positioning is wicked in atmosmovies like Minions

All I had to do is tweak the volume and crossover of the r50s to get them to sound really good. This is on a Marantz sr7010 reciever.

metalmackey · 29 Jul 2016 at 21:48

My Marantz sounds excellent to me

Its a big improvement over my Onkyo. I may demo a Yamaha next time I upgradethe receiver. Wont be for quite a while as the Marantz is really good on features