Taking a page out of JM's recent experience with speaker positioning you may already have all the speaker you need for your listening environment. I have never heard a small bookshelf speaker behave like a small tower before.Īh-ha, see you got to experimenting with what you already have in stock. I was absolutely stunned to feel the room shake when playing some Three Dog Night tunes at a moderate audio level from my Qinpu A3 tube/solid state hybrid amp. Keep in mind a totally empty hardwoord floor room is pretty easy to fill and has so many reflections, you may be hearing more loudness than detail. If you got two of them and stood them up, you would have almost the same sound performance as the 122. It is the same speaker as the floorstanding 122 but with a foot of cabinet cut off. I also have an older pair of JM Labs Tantal 509s that more than fill both my family room and kitchen with plenty of reserve.Īnother example using the older Dynaudio Audience line would be the 122c center channel. There are many killer small speakers and if you evr get a chance to listen to a pair of JAS Orior speakers driven with comparable gear, you would have a hard time convincing yourself they were not bigger. I also have floorstanders that are 4.5' tall and do not have deep thumping bass, but have more tone, timber, and detail than my Dynaudio 82s. I have a tiny pair of Dynaudio 42s being driven by a Stratos amp and I am continuously amazed at what they will do. Sometimes it is just a preference of one vs the other for looks and placement or WAF. There are plenty of small speakers that can outperform larger speakers. I was thinking that I should buy a pair of towers for my next main speakers to use after my Mirage OM 10's bite the dust but now I am wondering if I can achieve the same objective by using a high quality bookshelf.Ĭan anyone explain the best and worst points of each kind of speaker? pros and cons are to bookshelf speakers and towers. This being the case, I have to wonder what the differences i.e. Neither of those could even come close to sounding like these Jamo's in any way, shape or form at all.
My only other experience owning small speakers was a pair of Yamaha NS4 circa 1981 and then JBL 2500's in the mid 1990's. I have never heard a small bookshelf speaker behave like a small tower before. The sound stage became more expansive and open as a result of the height. I then mounted them on a couple of 2 foot tall boxes and I noted the bass became tighter but was still shockingly strong. Propped them on the floor about 8 feet apart and toed them up about a half inch which gave a real concert hall effect though with a slightly boomy bass, even when they were a foot away from the wall. The entire room was filled with audio even though I did not have any stands to use. Hard wood floors and currently no furniture in it. This weekend I was able to spend about an hour listening to my Jamo C 601 bookshelf speakers in the 14 x 14 room with the 10 foot ceiling.
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