Hi All,
I'm a first time poster (long time browser).
Having decided to hold off on purchasing a new tv until the Jan sales i'm going to put together my first surround set-up.
I've had a lot of hi-fi equipment over the years from monitor audio, quad, jamo and marantz and have been happily using some Quad 12L's for music the last 2 years or so. I Like the balance of the crisp, almost transparent sounding quads with the warmth of my cambridge amp. But i'd like to keep things stream-lined as i'm short of space and so will be replacing the cambridge amp with a musically capable av amp (i'm 99% set on the Denon 1910).
I had thought about buying a speaker package such as the KEF 2005.3 or the Tannoy arenas as they're pretty compact and *quite good looking (*to keep swmbo happy) but i'm not overly impressed with their musical ability, especially compared to my quads.
So here's where you guys come in. Can you recommend a pair of surround speakers a centre speaker and a sub that would mesh well with a denon 1910 and quad 12Ls as the centres, but also have a small footprint?
I wouldn't want to spend more than £500 and it would be for a small lounge as we aren't moving for at least another year.
Thanks in advance!
I'm a first time poster (long time browser).
Having decided to hold off on purchasing a new tv until the Jan sales i'm going to put together my first surround set-up.
I've had a lot of hi-fi equipment over the years from monitor audio, quad, jamo and marantz and have been happily using some Quad 12L's for music the last 2 years or so. I Like the balance of the crisp, almost transparent sounding quads with the warmth of my cambridge amp. But i'd like to keep things stream-lined as i'm short of space and so will be replacing the cambridge amp with a musically capable av amp (i'm 99% set on the Denon 1910).
I had thought about buying a speaker package such as the KEF 2005.3 or the Tannoy arenas as they're pretty compact and *quite good looking (*to keep swmbo happy) but i'm not overly impressed with their musical ability, especially compared to my quads.
So here's where you guys come in. Can you recommend a pair of surround speakers a centre speaker and a sub that would mesh well with a denon 1910 and quad 12Ls as the centres, but also have a small footprint?
I wouldn't want to spend more than £500 and it would be for a small lounge as we aren't moving for at least another year.
Thanks in advance!