In my case these speakers are close to the front wall, 7 inches, and dont require alot of toe in
With a serious speaker, with powerfull bass capacity like the 948, you'll need room correction, for sure.
Thank you for the post.
I recommend the 926's, but I also recommend pairing them with subs. I'd recommend SVS SB 3000's. You'll get more out of them if you use them in a HT and music combination setup.
Add a high pass filter
From looking at data and the drivers specified, I suspect the difference is very slight, with the contoured baffles on the Aria and the fancier cabinet being the big differences. For me, I went with Aria because there is no big Chora equivalent to the 948, and prices on the street were pretty close at the time. If I were shopping for speakers for a small or medium room, and didn't already have Arias, I would not be willing to pay more than like 15% more for Arias. At MSRP, Chora is a way better value for equivalent speakers like 826 vs 926.
I've never heard the 826's. It all depends on your budget. If you have the money the Arias will look nicer and IMHO looks go a lot further than people give credit. Non-audiophile guests, friends, wives, girlfriends etc. Are going to be more impressed with a good looking system and you'll be happier longer. Also, with subs and eq even OK speakers can sound pretty good so I put a lot of value into looks. If you don't have the budget for 926s with subs I'd get 826s with subs. But I'm a subs guy. I don't make any system without subs. IMHO no reasonable set of speakers will get low enough to give you all of the audio information you'd be losing without subs. IMHO subs are needed whether a music only or HT system. But between the 826s and 926s I'd assume mostly a difference in looks with a small difference in audio quality.
I have a Denon AVR-X4300H driving my Aria 936's, and it works great. Plenty of power. One thing to note is that Denon (and thus I assume Marantz) lets you configure your 2 channel settings separate from multi-channel. When fed a 2 channel source, it'll always use your 2 channel specific settings, so no need to "switch between surround and stereo setups." It works flawlessly.
Ok. So you're suggesting just use the AVR + Amp combination and no need to get a separate receiver for stereo in XS 3 (not sure how the DAC differs between the two).
I'd at least start that way. With low frequencies crossed over to the sub (likely at 80 Hz), you likely won't need that much power. Deep bass needs the most power, so if you send that to your sub the speakers are just far less demanding.
Hmmm. But there was a huge significant difference in the sound when I connected the power amp.
Between the AVR's, Marantz should be good as well? Or use both devices from Anthem.
Did you level match? You probably played louder with power amp which is why it sounded better.
