lojay
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Intro:
I'm living in a dorm soon, I don't suppose sharing my extensive music knowledge and good taste would hurt at all
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Just kidding...it's just that headphone listening would make me look like a dork, where everyone else just wouldn't do something so unsociable as that.
That's the reason I want bookshelf speakers, a pair that'd allow me to keep for years to come.
Requirements:
It has to be forgiving, musical and mellow, while keeping the pace and musicalness. It's to be used in a small room at low to moderate volumes.
I listen to 99% of all genres and 90% of all their subgenres, from Free Jazz to Minimalism; from The Streets to Steely Dan. Some classical but I'm quite bad at it; i.e. I listen to nearly everything. So I need a speaker that is fun but more importantly musical, and doesn't need to much slam and wham, especially if it'd yield to hollowness or harshness.
The fuller the sound the better. I simply can't stand harshness and hollowness, which a lot of low end speakers have to give a "crispness" and "sharp edge" to the sound.
The Speaker Audition:
I've tried a pair of Focal/JM Labs Cobalts around $300 and a pair of $400 Mission 780SE's, a grade higher than Mission m51 and m71's, which's seldom mentioned here. I kind of like the forward but musical forgivingness of the English Mission 780's, which are absent in the Mission M51's I've observed at the same time. I cannot comment much on the JM Labs, as time spent on them was little, and the source was different.
I havent the time to look at all the massive selections of bookshelves mentioned before here in Head-fi, although I've seen the Mission's pop out quite not-so-favourably as others.
According to my own ears, the CDs I've tested them with today, i.e. Iron Maiden and Diana Krall, sounds better on the English made Mission 780SE than the French made $300,$400 Focal/JM Labs speakers.
Lastly, take my opinions as crap and tell me all you know about these speakers. (Both JM Labs and Mission's) I fully understand how the different settings during audition let consumers make wrong decisions, for example some bought a Mission 780 back home coz they thought it sounded musical and full at the audtion room, but figured that they sounded harsh back at home, and buyers reget came in. So don't tell me, please don't, that I should "buy it if I felt it sounded nice". I have bad ears because of such large subjectiveness during the bad audition settings yesterday, and relatively short audiophile experience. So pitch in and give all your opinions out! Leave none for yourself!
I'm living in a dorm soon, I don't suppose sharing my extensive music knowledge and good taste would hurt at all
Just kidding...it's just that headphone listening would make me look like a dork, where everyone else just wouldn't do something so unsociable as that.
That's the reason I want bookshelf speakers, a pair that'd allow me to keep for years to come.
Requirements:
It has to be forgiving, musical and mellow, while keeping the pace and musicalness. It's to be used in a small room at low to moderate volumes.
I listen to 99% of all genres and 90% of all their subgenres, from Free Jazz to Minimalism; from The Streets to Steely Dan. Some classical but I'm quite bad at it; i.e. I listen to nearly everything. So I need a speaker that is fun but more importantly musical, and doesn't need to much slam and wham, especially if it'd yield to hollowness or harshness.
The fuller the sound the better. I simply can't stand harshness and hollowness, which a lot of low end speakers have to give a "crispness" and "sharp edge" to the sound.
The Speaker Audition:
I've tried a pair of Focal/JM Labs Cobalts around $300 and a pair of $400 Mission 780SE's, a grade higher than Mission m51 and m71's, which's seldom mentioned here. I kind of like the forward but musical forgivingness of the English Mission 780's, which are absent in the Mission M51's I've observed at the same time. I cannot comment much on the JM Labs, as time spent on them was little, and the source was different.
I havent the time to look at all the massive selections of bookshelves mentioned before here in Head-fi, although I've seen the Mission's pop out quite not-so-favourably as others.
According to my own ears, the CDs I've tested them with today, i.e. Iron Maiden and Diana Krall, sounds better on the English made Mission 780SE than the French made $300,$400 Focal/JM Labs speakers.
Lastly, take my opinions as crap and tell me all you know about these speakers. (Both JM Labs and Mission's) I fully understand how the different settings during audition let consumers make wrong decisions, for example some bought a Mission 780 back home coz they thought it sounded musical and full at the audtion room, but figured that they sounded harsh back at home, and buyers reget came in. So don't tell me, please don't, that I should "buy it if I felt it sounded nice". I have bad ears because of such large subjectiveness during the bad audition settings yesterday, and relatively short audiophile experience. So pitch in and give all your opinions out! Leave none for yourself!
