Help me pair speakers for a PrimaLuna tube amp
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Just bought a PrimaLuna Prologue Two tube amp. What speakers do you recommend? I looking at the M60ti.
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Re: Help me pair speakers for a PrimaLuna tube amp
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A bit more info could help us help you. How big is the room? How loud do you intend on listening? Will there be a sub in the mix? What kind of music do you listen to? Any other info you can think of too.
BTW welcome to the forum.
Rick
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Re: Help me pair speakers for a PrimaLuna tube amp
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My wife would prefer bookshelfs due to size. The room is 12X13 with 9 foot ceilings and french doors into the den and hallway. In other words a lot of space. Music is everything from rock to classical. Not too loud. No sub planned.
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If you don't plan to buy a sub, then floorstanders is the answer. Get M80s, you'll never regret not buying the top of the line. Otherwise, M60s would be just as good.
Axiom M60s, QS4s, VP100 Onkyo TX-SR804 Oppo 970HD
Rotel RB-1080/RCD-1072 REL Q150E sub, PS 3
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Agreed M60's. I run my M22's w/ a Sophia Baby. Sounds great w/o the sub but w/ the sub it's definitely much better.
Great amp BTW.
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M22s and M60s are great speakers indeed!!
But, in a smaller(listening)room, with no sub, playing lower volumes, music only, preferably bookshelves, with TUBES....!!
No Question!!......Gotta be M3s!!
Check out this forum history.
Check out the last five years of "profesional" reviews of M3s and more than just a few tube reviews.
You'll find the words "match" and "heaven" sprinkled all over the place!
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If it is a bookshelf speaker with no sub I too would have to say the M3s would be by all account the one of choice. If there is a chance the wife would allow towers, and then if it were me I would have to give the M50s a try. This all being that there is no sub in the plans.
Rick
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I recommend either a pair of Axiom M3s for $300 or a pair of Reference 3a de capo mmi's for $2500.
Enjoy the Music. Trust your ears. Laugh at Folks Who Claim to Know it All.
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And that is not a typo. The M3s really are that good.
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Sud, if you're going to get bookshelves, my suggestion would be the M22s, which are fine for most music(no pipe organ allowed)without a sub in your size room. You can expect room gain to give you good bass to about 50Hz and reduced but still usable output to 40Hz. Study the SoundStage review which first made me aware of Axiom and led to me getting M22s(I can do without an upper-bass hump).
The most recent review of the M3s is in the Audioholics face-off from last week.
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