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What are the best, smallest high end speakers?

Your reply makes a lot of sense. I would agree to 5" woofers but not any bigger. Do you think the same fatigue rule applies when a subwoofer is integrated?
Not have a subwoofer actually, because of the convalescence period of my bank account after the Genelecs and the stands… :)

Subs can be connected or not, and generally provide a more coherent bass response, so in general will be more linear on the whole spectrum than 2.0 systems.

On the other side will require some learning curve to know the better place for them, phase alignment and room correction. Some people here have achieved good results in little rooms with the 7040 despite being designed for the 8010 or the 8020. Is a 6,5 inch subwoofer, as little as a sub can be. Buy only have 50 watts and 100 dB SPL, it will be my choice because I don’t give a tremendous importance to the sub bass region on my musical preferences.

I still think that better choose your speakers and after a while listening and enjoying decide if you need a sub or not. Personally I’m not sure, when I want to try something I speak with Thomann about the possibility of try and return, is present on its 30 days Money Back program but I prefer to talk about it to not abuse of the program.
 
KEF LSX II seems like a pretty neat little package.

Not as flat on paper as the monitors from Neumann or Genelec, but I doubt it makes much of a difference when simply listening to music.

As long as there's a resonable low end extension with a limiter to prevent over excursion and there's good suppression of resonances, the frequency response becomes less critical. Doesn't mean any wonky frequency response will do, and "cheating" by having an off-axis response that's all over the place doesn't help either, but poor bass response and resonances are far more damaging to the perception of quality.
Very practical speakers, though honestly I found them so invaded by low end, though probably one can refine them by EQ.

The app worked fine also, but considering the price I prefer Genelecs 8020 way more: and you save 500€ more to the 7040 subwoofer
 
My dream is to have 8331a but that price is too high, those are endgame speakers for desktop literally

Pair that with REM ucx2
 
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