Hope this is the appropriate forum for this question. I am trying to help a good friend replace his old dying speakers and browsing these great forums has helped me narrow it down quite a bit. About 1 year ago he bought a nicely maintained Sansui G-5500 vintage receiver (his uncle refurbishes them) so that is what I'm looking to build off of. I believe these are the power specs for that receiver
2 x 60W/8 ohms at 0.03% THD, 20 -20.000Hz
My friend is a jazz musician so much of his listening will be transcribing solos etc (he is a sax player). I'd say he listens to about 80% acoustic/not heavily amped jazz with vintage R&B and some pop filling out the rest. No heavy rock or rap.
His budget is US $200 but I may be able to bump that up 25 with some convincing if needed. I originally offered to help thinking that it would be a good opportunity to build him a set of the Dayton BR-1s
BR-1 at PartsExpress
After doing a bit of reading it seems if I went that route that doing Dennis Murphy's revised crossover would be worth the extra coin
dennis murphy revised crossover
I'm semi confident I could put these together without too many oops moments as I have some experience soldering. However, browsing some forums I found so many good reviews for the Infinity Primus 150s that I thought I should consider them as well. It seems that they can be had at around the same price as the BR-1 (less than the modded X-Over BR-1s). The Primus would have less bass than the Daytons but I could always add something like the $100 dayton sub if he needed it later.
So basically I'm looking for opinions concerning the pros and cons of those two given my friends listening habits. Also if you think one or both of these would be either an unworkable or awful match for the vintage Sansui please let me know as I don't know the amp that well and am just going on what I've read in various forums (maybe I should be looking for vintage speakers as well). Thanks for the help.
Scott