New speakers?

[Tyr]

Hello fellow pursuers of a satisfying sound!

I have been considering a speaker change for quite a while now and would be well happy to hear your thoughts on the subject!

The speakers I'm leaving are Audiophysics scorpio2. Do like the sound of them a lot but think they will do better in another room.
Spent many, many hours moving them around and bought shitloads of acoustic treatment but still not happy enough

I mainly play 60/70s heavy/psych/prog rock and i think i want a speaker with some warmth in the mids/upper bass and i think i want to try something different from the "modern" designed floor standing speakers i had before.

Have not been around the local shops yet for a listening but from an internet point of view I'm considering and prejudging:

Tannoy Prestige Stirling GR: Too lame compared to its ancestors and bigger siblings?
JBL 4429: Just bass and no detail/soundstage?
Harbeth Super HL5-3+: Too little bass?
Klipsch Cornwall III: A cerwing vega type of thing?

The room is about 25 square meters the amp is 100w mark levinson no27 and I'm open to all suggestions but definitely below 10k €

Best regards!

[walpurgis]

I think you may find you are wrong about each of those speakers Edgar. Try and get a listen to some.

[agk]

What specifically is the problem with your current speakers? Might make it easier to suggest alternatives.

[dantheman91]

I think you may find you are wrong about each of those speakers Edgar. Try and get a listen to some.

+1....If he has never listened to any how does he know....

[oldius]

Based on the music you listen to, I don't think you can go far wrong with JBL.
At the recent Cranage show, friends of mine commented that the JBL/Levinson combination was the best sound of the show. I didn't go this year, but last year I felt exactly the same. I felt that combination, with a variety of music, made other systems sound very compromised.

[Michael loves music]

+1....If he has never listened to any how does he know....

He may have been dreaming ? Alas my dreams involve Ruth Langsford

[Macca]

Based on the music you listen to, I don't think you can go far wrong with JBL.
At the recent Cranage show, friends of mine commented that the JBL/Levinson combination was the best sound of the show. I didn't go this year, but last year I felt exactly the same. I felt that combination, with a variety of music, made other systems sound very compromised.

Agree that is what I wold spend my e10K on. JBL 4365. They are exactly what a perfect loudspeaker should sound like. For me, anyway. Superb quality of sound and effortless scale from bottom to top.

[Lawrence001]

I've got Virgos at the moment and used to have Sparks. I have always found them a bit lean in the mid/upper bass department, and this can be mainly ameliorated with source amp and cable matching. Warm class A and valve amps are a big help. What are you using?

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[Tyr]

Its the mids/upper bass that i am currently missing in the music I'm mainly listening to therefore thoughts on jbl. Like some of the older jbl models I've heard.

I did write clearly that i haven't listened to any of those and my assumptions came from the internet.
What i was hoping for was that there were any kliphsh/harbeth/jbl/tannoy fans here that maybe knew if the new stuff was shit compared to old etc..

Lawrence001:
I play vinyl on a modded technics 1210 mk2, nagaoka mp200-trigon vanguard2 riaa-project prebox rs with telefunken nos e88cc tubes-
mark levinson no27 power amp that i bought used but i think i read somewhere that it runs in a/b 100w 8ohm 200w 4ohm.
Transparent musiclink+ rca between riaa/pre amp balanced no name microphone cable between pre/power amp and nordost something speaker cables.

[walpurgis]

What i was hoping for was that there were any kliphsh/harbeth/jbl/tannoy fans here that maybe knew if the new stuff was shit compared to old etc...

I don't compare my vintage Tannoys to new ones. I find the sound I'm getting so enjoyable and satisfying that mine are going nowhere!

New Tannoys are very expensive and as the better models are based on the classic originals, I doubt there's much, if anything to be gained.