[kartik]

Has anyone tried the Norh Pyramid SM speakers? I am looking for efficient speakers to be powered by my sharp digital amp. I was intrigued by the pyramids (especially the fact that they are $450 a pair). Any feedback?

 

[Wodgy]

The nOrh pyramids use the same drivers as the nOrh 3.0s (just more of them). I have a pair of the marble 3.0s and they sound pretty average. Though I haven't heard the pyramids, I probably wouldn't spend $450/pr for this level of sound.

 

[kartik]

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Originally posted by Wodgy The nOrh pyramids use the same drivers as the nOrh 3.0s (just more of them). I have a pair of the marble 3.0s and they sound pretty average. Though I haven't heard the pyramids, I probably wouldn't spend $450/pr for this level of sound.

Hmmm...
I thought that the norh 3.0 had a lower sensitivity though. These are said to have a 94dB sensitivity.
Any other ideas for efficient easy-to drive budget speakers?
How about the 4.0s abd the 5.1s

 

[Wodgy]

Adding more identical drivers is one of the standard techniques for making speakers more sensitive. Check out Bottlehead's "Straight 8" speakers for a more extreme example:
http://www.bottlehead.com/straight%208/straight_8.htm

I'm not slamming the 3.0s by any means -- they're decent speakers at their $150/pr price tag, but I wouldn't recommend a louder version of them for $450. I've never heard the 4.0s and the 5.1s, so I can't comment, but I've heard good things about them.

Your amp can generate 50 wpc, so you don't have to worry too much about efficiency anyway, unless your room is large or you need to play music at party volumes. Check out any of the standard budget speaker recommendations (PSB, Axiom, Paradigm, etc.). Because it's a digital amp, you might want speakers with a more-or-less smooth impedance curve, though. Not all vendors provide this kind of information.

 

[kartik]

One more important concern is that I need speakers that would kind of be sonically invisible. I was looking at something that would be heard all over the room rather than be position dependent and that too at all frequencies.