Audioholics - Please help plan our next round of upgrades.

[somesnapper]

Thanks. I've been taking the advice of others and listening. As you know I have a Aperion 5C Center and I'm looking for a "cleaner" and bigger sound stage. This is the primary reason for upgrading.

I currently have front ported towers (6T) and was looking for a cleaner sound in that area also. They are a bit boom and its because of my room. Audyssey really tames the 6T's below 80hz.

So - I prefer technically accurate/neutral and maybe slightly forward sound that can be played at 93dB (with 103db spikes) without ripping my ears out with harshness. So if you recommend a few good options and I'll try my best to listen to them.

To help with my room issues, I'll be putting Corning 703 as basic room treatment, although that wont help with bass much i think..

Currently, I'm torn between going with a sub (and knowing I cant really get down to 16-25hz) or towers.

 

[fuzz092888]

I think for what you want finding a commercially available speaker can be difficult or not, that really depends on you. I know the reason you get a lot of ID recommendations is because ID offers some of the best bang for your buck that you can't get a lot of the time with commercial speakers.

sourcespeaker.com

More great products that will play loud and accurate, but again ID. All the recommendations for Kef, totem, b&w, and whatever else are good recommendations. The thing is if you go out and listen to speakers by as many brands as you can find, you can come back and say I liked this I didn't like this and we can go from there. When you just say I want this, all we can do is throw out suggestions until we're blue in the face. We know what you want. We know what you have. We've given some suggestions, so now I think if you spent some time at an audio store auditioning some speakers, it would help you get a better handle on specifically what you may be leaning towards. It will also help narrow down what we think you may like. It's a very subjective experience in many ways.

Just my .02