As the title describes, I want to upgrade my front speakers from my old Dynaudio Audience 72.
During the past year I have invested considerably in acoustic treatment for my room, plus I have Dirac DLBC license for my Denon 3800H.
As such, and given the good results I have gotten from acoustic treatment plus Dirac, I have started considering stepping up a notch for my fronts.
Current configuration is Audience 72 left and right, Audience 122C center, Audience 42W surrounds, Polk Atrium 5 for Atmos and two SVS SB1000 subwoofers. A 5.2.4 setup.
Room is 4.85m x 3.72m (15.9 x 12.2 feet), ceiling at 2.9m (9.5 feet) .
Listening levels for music sit between 75 and 80db on average (these are the peaks), when I'm really listening to music. I measured these with a SPL meter set on slow response on a variety of content. Hope it's a useful enough information.
I currently am satisfied of sound pressure levels. MLP is about 2.4m (7.9 feet) from front and left speakers, 2.2m (7.2 feet) from centre. Ceiling mounted Atmos are pointed at MLP with angles within Atmos recommendations. I listen to lots of music in a variety of genres. Music is important, hence stereo performance is important (I love 5.1 and Atmos music but catalog is limited). But I also love watching movies and TV shows.
So the question is: after reading reviews and looking at Erin’s measurements (and spinorama.org’s rankings), plus considering I’d be using subs and equalisation, am I right in believing KEF R5 Meta will sound great and hopefully better than my current Dynaudio (which already are satisfying)? Size of the speakers would be ok. I dont’ want bigger towers.
I would probably buy a R6 Meta centre speaker to go with them, thus changing the whole front bed layer.
Curious about the need/advantage of getting extra amplification for the three frontal speakers too. I know amplification is not my AVR’s strong point.
Thanks in advance for your inputs.
EDIT: forgot a question I wanted to ask. Is the coaxial tweeter/mid approach useful to reduce directivity from the centre speaker? Since it has to sit below my TV (angled toward MLP), I would value an improvement in being less able to tell when sound comes from the centre speaker. Some multichannel music mixes are particularly bad for this.
During the past year I have invested considerably in acoustic treatment for my room, plus I have Dirac DLBC license for my Denon 3800H.
As such, and given the good results I have gotten from acoustic treatment plus Dirac, I have started considering stepping up a notch for my fronts.
Current configuration is Audience 72 left and right, Audience 122C center, Audience 42W surrounds, Polk Atrium 5 for Atmos and two SVS SB1000 subwoofers. A 5.2.4 setup.
Room is 4.85m x 3.72m (15.9 x 12.2 feet), ceiling at 2.9m (9.5 feet) .
Listening levels for music sit between 75 and 80db on average (these are the peaks), when I'm really listening to music. I measured these with a SPL meter set on slow response on a variety of content. Hope it's a useful enough information.
I currently am satisfied of sound pressure levels. MLP is about 2.4m (7.9 feet) from front and left speakers, 2.2m (7.2 feet) from centre. Ceiling mounted Atmos are pointed at MLP with angles within Atmos recommendations. I listen to lots of music in a variety of genres. Music is important, hence stereo performance is important (I love 5.1 and Atmos music but catalog is limited). But I also love watching movies and TV shows.
So the question is: after reading reviews and looking at Erin’s measurements (and spinorama.org’s rankings), plus considering I’d be using subs and equalisation, am I right in believing KEF R5 Meta will sound great and hopefully better than my current Dynaudio (which already are satisfying)? Size of the speakers would be ok. I dont’ want bigger towers.
I would probably buy a R6 Meta centre speaker to go with them, thus changing the whole front bed layer.
Curious about the need/advantage of getting extra amplification for the three frontal speakers too. I know amplification is not my AVR’s strong point.
Thanks in advance for your inputs.
EDIT: forgot a question I wanted to ask. Is the coaxial tweeter/mid approach useful to reduce directivity from the centre speaker? Since it has to sit below my TV (angled toward MLP), I would value an improvement in being less able to tell when sound comes from the centre speaker. Some multichannel music mixes are particularly bad for this.
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