Hello,
Loudspeakers for the Nova, the topic can be found here in some places. I have also had experience with it and would just like to report.
I have changed from the Dynaudio Contour 1.3 and the Uniti Star to the T&A Criterion 2100 and later then exchanged the Star to a Nova. Later I had a good deal on a used NAP250DR and am now running that on the Nova. The Star and the Dynaudio are now running in the office.
The T&A speaker was always a little hung up and I felt like it was losing details. I had compared it at the time with B&W 702 and the smaller T&A 2000. Had liked me then very well and had even tested that at home. But somehow I did not become happy. So the plan was to buy a new speaker.
Luck came to it, because I got the T&A immediately for a super price sold.
Now testing stood on the program. All speakers I heard at home with me over several days.
Spendor A4:
Tonally great, fast, lively. The speaker was a lot of fun. Volume and bass were a bit lacking, though. Spendor A7, unfortunately, I could not hear test. Might have been just right, but I didn’t want to buy a speaker without listening at home.
Geithain ME150 (not very well known here)
An extremely good speaker with a naturalness and spatial imaging that I have not heard before. However, the problem I had with the T&A reappeared. New recordings with a lot of bass stimulate to drone in my room.There was just too much in the bass range.
Geithain ME110
The number smaller then tried. It didn’t have the bass volume, of course. Unfortunately, the voices and the instruments then also lacked the natural body and the speaker seemed rather bright in the overall sound image. I found for long-term listening not ideal.
Linn Majik 140
Great speaker. Just the right balance in the bass, so everything had a good natural body, but in the bass it still worked well in my room. In addition, I was able to place them close to the wall. For me, the maximum distance is 30cm, which makes the bass issue also not easy. However, I lacked a little spatiality with the speaker. Consideration was to throw out Naim and to operate the Linn active and to work with the Linn room optimization. But then I was unsure and gave another speaker a chance.
Audio Physic Classic 25
My wife was thrilled by the look and I by the sound.Insanely spacious, punchy and fast like the Spendor but with enough foundation and bass. Very balanced in my room. Have permanently wiggled my foot while listening and often listened all the way through the records. Forgot about the speaker and just listened to music. I then ordered this one and will get it delivered tomorrow. As accessories I ordered the VCF II MAGNETIC PLUS SPEAKER feet directly.These have again made a difference to the spikes.
What was also my experience that from my point of view it does not matter whether the speaker has 4 or 8Ohm as a specification. All speakers had a sensitivity of 85 to 89db and I heard them all at similar volume control on the Nova between 25 to 40.
All speakers had a sensitivity of 85 to 89db and I heard them all at similar volume control on the Nova.
Now I’m looking forward to tomorrow and if there will be peace then regarding speaker selection and speaker satisfaction.
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