Wharfdale 220 for desk?

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Looking for a pair of desktop speakers.

Wondering if anyone has a view on these?

Others

Acoustic energy Ae100
Monitor audio bronze 50

Also happy to consider second hand
Like monitor audio bronze 1

These are a bit more expensive. But I love my MA RX living room setup!
 
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If you are use to your Monitor Audio RX's sound signature, I would not recommend going for the 220.

Not saying the 220 are not great speakers, but coming from MA RX you are most likely going to get the feeling that some details and clarity will be missing due to the 220 being warmer sounding, whereas MA is more on the neutral and leaning sightly toward the brighter sounding side.

The Bronze 1 most likely suit you better. It is currently on sales over at Peter Tyson for just £126 (and an ex-display at just £99)! It's a frickin steal!

I am very tempted to get a set myself as well, but already got to many speakers lying around (including a set of Bronze BX2 and Wharfedale Diamond 155 lol)

Thanks for this. I don't like warm sound. Maybe the bx would be better.

I like bright sound with a bit of bass (which I can cover with a powered sub)
 
Difficult.
On the last track I preferred the MA. On first the BW

I've decided I can go up a bit in budget if it's worth it.
I've seen MA silver for 200, and be 607 for 300 (which is a lot)

Happy to go used. Does it open up any more clear choices?
 
Just to warn you about something before you get carried away...

From my own personal experience, for desktop speakers ideally you wouldn't want something too big, but something more compact would be more ideal. It can be placed at a further distance away from where you sit rather than having bigger speakers that would sit too close to you almost right in your face.

I have TRIED to use my MA BX2 as desktop speaker, but the problem is sitting at distance of about 1 metre or less away from the speakers, the speaker cannot get up to needed volume to shine (cause ideally should be about 2 metres+ away from speakers so it can be ran at higher volume level), and in the end gone back to use the Q Acoustics 3010 (I didn't get the Bronze 1 back then due to much higher in price). The one thing the MA Bronze 1 has going for it what it can deliver despite for it small size of (H x W x D) 260 x 165 x 180 mm. The Wharfedale Diamond 220 in comparison is larger with the size of (H x W x D) 315 x 174 x 255 mm. Also despite the smaller size, the Bronze 1 Frequency Response is 55 Hz - 30 kHz vs the 220 Frequency Response 56Hz - 20kHz.

You might wish to also check the physical dimensions as well when you look at the speakers and considering the placements on your desk.

Max distance is 60 cm is from cone to ear. I should probably get a small cabinet.

Maybe bx1 is a good idea.

The b&w 607 is quite small
 
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I didn't see this post before ordering a good deal on 607.

I can get them about 50cm from rear wall, and 30 from side.

Main compromise is they will only be 1m apart. As a compromise those distances don't seem too bad.

Unfortunately I couldn't get to try before I bought
 
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