exit wrote:I'm working on getting my clients "A" room ready. It's been a crazy process. We want mains like Augspergers or Questeds but they are a bit pricey. I'm not trying to go over $25k, but can't seem to find anything right in that range, or below that suits my needs.
320 sq ft room
Hoping to have dual 15's on each side
Looks are as important as sound
Will be doing hip hop and r&b on them mostly
Thanks in advance.
exit
Hello exit,
This is my first post to this forum, so I figure that a bit of introduction is in order, as I have no established "cred" here.
I am a doctoral student at Georgia Tech, and in my (limited) free time do sound system design and tech work. In a prior era I did design consulting for professional loudspeakers, and am currently working on usage tutorials for the SMAARTLive dual channel FFT measurement platform.
When you begin to talk about large monitors at the budget levels you are discussing, it begins to make sense to move beyond the world of HiFi and studio monitor products into professional speakers.
Prosound speakers have many advantages in terms of sensitivity, output capability, lower distortion, directivity control, build quality, etc. The "bang/buck" factor is also MUCH higher.
The key is finding prosound speakers with sound quality that rivals monitors, and this is a more difficult endeavor.
I would suggest taking a serious look at two possible combinations:
The first is a top/subwoofer pair from Meyersound:
http://www.meyersound.com/products/ultr ... /index.htm
http://www.meyersound.com/products/ultr ... /index.htm
The Meyersound products are self-powered (amplfiers, crossovers, etc.) built in. Meyer, XTA, DBX, BSS, etc. sell powerful digital signal processors that could be used for crossover and equalization features within this room.
The second pairing I recommend is from Sound Physics Lab:
http://www.soundphysics.com/SPL-runt.html
http://www.soundphysics.com/SPL-bdeap32.html or
http://www.soundphysics.com/contrabass.html
The SPL Runt is the most unique speaker I have ever run across. Frequency response is smoother than any other prosound speaker I have measured, and better than 99% of all home speakers. In addition, the phase response is more even than any other box I have run across, including those with active internal phase corrections circuitry.
The Sound Physics boxes are not self-powered, so you would need to provide amplification for them (I recommend Crown, Crest, qsc, or Lab Gruppen) and a digital loudspeaker processor (similar to the Meyer). I mention it, extra setup included, mainly because of its tour de force sound and performance.
You could buy either of these systems, the outboard hardware, and several hours of optimization time from a measurement guru (I can recommend several) within your budget constraints.
Hopefully something to think about.
