I currently use Sonus Faber Cremona Auditor standmount speakers and whilst I like the mid and treble from these I've always found the bass a bit lacking so I arranged a demo at my local dealer to listen to a few pairs of floorstanders within my £3k to £4k budget to try and find replacement speakers that have a fuller sounding bottom end.
I listened in turn to the following speakers using a Naim Supernait3/NDX2 :
Spendor a4
ATC SCM40
Dynaudio Evoke 30
Sonus Faber Sonetto III
What surprised me was that all of the speakers seemed to have very little bottom end, similar to what I hear with my Sonus Faber standmounts. Even the ATCs, which I've read nothing but praise for, sounded similar.
Just out of interest they also let me listen to Dynaudio Confidence 20 (which are beyond my budget at around £10k) just to see if it was my budget that was constraining things and although I heard more detail through the more expensive speakers they still had the same issue with the bass.
I do like the Naim sound and but do you think that I need to try some speakers with a larger >10" bass driver like Tannoy or similar? I've always fancied trying some classic Yamaha NS1000s but not sure how these would compare to the more modern speakers listed above.
Is anyone else running a similar Naim system without it lacking in the bass?
Any recommendations welcome.
Thanks
I listened in turn to the following speakers using a Naim Supernait3/NDX2 :
Spendor a4
ATC SCM40
Dynaudio Evoke 30
Sonus Faber Sonetto III
What surprised me was that all of the speakers seemed to have very little bottom end, similar to what I hear with my Sonus Faber standmounts. Even the ATCs, which I've read nothing but praise for, sounded similar.
Just out of interest they also let me listen to Dynaudio Confidence 20 (which are beyond my budget at around £10k) just to see if it was my budget that was constraining things and although I heard more detail through the more expensive speakers they still had the same issue with the bass.
I do like the Naim sound and but do you think that I need to try some speakers with a larger >10" bass driver like Tannoy or similar? I've always fancied trying some classic Yamaha NS1000s but not sure how these would compare to the more modern speakers listed above.
Is anyone else running a similar Naim system without it lacking in the bass?
Any recommendations welcome.
Thanks