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Passive Speaker Recommendations for USA (by @sweetchaos)

Not sure what you mean by “suck it and see” but I’ll assume you mean “try”. I am using Dirac. After replacing the center speaker, the LR might need to be replaced or might not as you mentioned. Will try it out, but first I need to choose a center.

In an echoey open floor plan with 10’ ceiling, which would be the best center speaker within a +-20 degree listening window?
No way of knowing without listening to the speakers in that space....

Speakers have always been difficult to subjectively characterise - you can measure them and get an indication of quality, but ultimately they have to be listened to.... of all the components in our setups, they are the most imperfect / flawed - few speakers achieve less than 1% distortion across the frequency range, even very highly regarded ones.... so acceptable speaker performance, accepts flaws that would be grounds for outright rejection in electronics....

The flaws are often resonances - and some people are very sensitive to those, others never notice them.... resulting in speakers being very much a matter of taste.

That makes things even more difficult in the age of online shopping.
 
Even though they are overpriced currently (I remember last Christmas they were on sale), you can still buy them from newegg 3rd party.
So I'll leave them here for now.
I'll set up an alert to notify me if they ever go out of stock, so I'll remove them then ;)
I came across a store that is having a sale on a pair of new Sonus Faber Lumina 1 speakers for $450, is that a good deal?
 
Amazing deal but they are a little hard to drive so make sure you have a fairly strong amp
 
Maybe at low volumes for near field. Not nearly enough to fill a larger room
 
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