Gallo or other aesthetically pleasing speaker options?
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Sound quality is key to me but SWMBO has other priorities, which I sympathise with.
We used to have a pair of EPOS ES14s (which are ace) either side of our Panny 50G20 and a REL Q400 sub. For the time being I've replaced the ES14s with a pair of Gallo A'Diva Ti's. The sound is not in the same ballpark. Surprisingly though the biggest come-down is in the high frequency area. This is my first experience of so-called full-range drivers but so far I'm just not convinced that they're cabable of matching a separate tweeter in the HF stakes.
Currently, we have no centre. Obvious options might be to use a Gallo Strada with ribbon tweeter or to just forget the Gallo route and start again with smaller, conventional L/C/R boxes - or try one of the options designed to 'visually match flat-screen TVs'. Are any of these (KEF6000, B&W FPM) actually any good or is the sacrifice for 'looks' always going to be too big for someone who cares mostly about sound? When you're talking about £400 for a single unit, that obviously buys a fair amount of conventional, small speaker...
Any recommendations?
We used to have a pair of EPOS ES14s (which are ace) either side of our Panny 50G20 and a REL Q400 sub. For the time being I've replaced the ES14s with a pair of Gallo A'Diva Ti's. The sound is not in the same ballpark. Surprisingly though the biggest come-down is in the high frequency area. This is my first experience of so-called full-range drivers but so far I'm just not convinced that they're cabable of matching a separate tweeter in the HF stakes.
Currently, we have no centre. Obvious options might be to use a Gallo Strada with ribbon tweeter or to just forget the Gallo route and start again with smaller, conventional L/C/R boxes - or try one of the options designed to 'visually match flat-screen TVs'. Are any of these (KEF6000, B&W FPM) actually any good or is the sacrifice for 'looks' always going to be too big for someone who cares mostly about sound? When you're talking about £400 for a single unit, that obviously buys a fair amount of conventional, small speaker...
Any recommendations?
Thanks, chaps. The Kef T305 and MA HD look like exactly the kind of thing that merits investigation. I can't quite figure how I got as far as Kef's website and didn't find those myself. 
Bogie - that's exactly the route I used to get hold of the A'Diva Ti's. They'd been photographed once and put back in the boxes. Absolutely mint. They might be great performing surround duties but they're not quite what I'm after for front L/R.
Bogie - that's exactly the route I used to get hold of the A'Diva Ti's. They'd been photographed once and put back in the boxes. Absolutely mint. They might be great performing surround duties but they're not quite what I'm after for front L/R.
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