Which Speakers ? under $600

[zonik]

I'd have to go with Paradigm Reference Studio 20's. Haven't seen anything better for the price.

Thanks I'll try to see if I can find some to eval.

Has anyone heard in person the Klipsch RB75s ?
Lou Reed has..... but I'd like to 'hear' from regular people.

Thanks

[N. Abstentia]

http://www.paradigm.com/Website/Site...udioSpecs.html

Thanks I'll try to see if I can find some to eval.

Has anyone heard in person the Klipsch RB75s ?
Lou Reed has..... but I'd like to 'hear' from regular people.

Thanks

[N. Abstentia]

Whoops...replied to the wrong post. That was supposed to be for SpankingVanillaIce looking for the Paradigm Studio 20 page

[SpankingVanillaice]

I looked at the specs but I noticed that the tweeters are not titanium but I can say I like how titanium sounds but is aluminum better? I did notice that other things about them are simillar to the Studio Series from JBL too.

[SpankingVanillaice]

What I needed to know is that is there a big difference on sound between the JBL S26 monitors and the Paradigm Studio 20 monitors?

[N. Abstentia]

What I needed to know is that is there a big difference on sound between the JBL S26 monitors and the Paradigm Studio 20 monitors?

JBL will produce sound.

Studio 20's will bring the sound alive

I've just never been impressed by any of JBL's cheap mass market stuff. It's just cookie cutter like everything else Harmon makes.

My Dad still has a JBL D130/075 setup from the 60's..now those things have some LIFE! It's kinda sad what JBL has become, really.

[topspeed]

Driver material will have a lot less to do with a speaker's sound than design parameters. Why do you think you can have two speakers that use the same Vifa drivers sound so different? There are a lot of other things to take into consideration, such as cabinet construction, dispersion patterns, crossover components and design, speaker design (i.e. transmission line, acoustic suspension, etc.). In other words, don't worry about the speaker materials, just worry about the overall sound.

Hope this helps.

[N. Abstentia]

A well designed, well built tweeter made out of horse crap will outperfrom a poorly built, poorly designed tweeter made from the most expensive material in the world.

It's useless to go just by the material, it's all in the design and integration. A good tweeter is a good tweeter, no matter what the material.

And other than the basic round shape of the drivers, Paradigm has nothing in common with JBL! That's kinda like assuming an orange and a baseball taste the same just because they are both round and roughly the same size

I looked at the specs but I noticed that the tweeters are not titanium but I can say I like how titanium sounds but is aluminum better? I did notice that other things about them are simillar to the Studio Series from JBL too.

[SpankingVanillaice]

I can say I can hear lots of details on the highs on the JBL Control 1X monitors too. They sound really clean and percise.