Joseph Oberlander wrote:



Brian wrote:

At the moment I own BOSE acoustimass 7 speakers and a pair of Kef C25
bookshelf speakers.

There's your solution. The best mating of your current decent
speakers is to go with simmilar Kef speakers. A setup of C25s
and a subwoofer would be very competant by comparison.

Of course, these would be used. New?

http://www.kef.com/kefamerica/produc...qseries2Ds.htm
Something like this - a wall mountable surround speaker. Use
the c25s you have for the front. Very decor friendly.

Tannoy and others make simmilar surrounds as well. I find
Kef and Tannoy to be pretty compatable in the lower end
models as far as mixing them together, so something like
a set of Tannoy MxM surrounds(used) would also likely work.

I like a warm bass sound. For movies I like to feel a crash in action
movies with the bass speaker (sub woofer) sound making it feel real.
A bad sounding system makes me feel like wanting to take a break from
listening after about 10 minutes.

This is called "fatigue" - and comes from your brain having to
artificially EQ the sound in your head. Good speakers will
amaze you - you can listen for hours at a time.

If you have the money, or can get to an audio dealer, check
out a pair of Tannoy Saturns(or whatever they have in stock
with their dual-concentric drivers). Vocals sounds like vocals.
The speaker has no glaring problems and nearly zero fatigue.

My father heard these and gladly spent the money and found a way
to fit them into his living room. You might consider something
like this as well for the front speakers and use your existing
Kefs for the rear. Add a sub and a center channel and you're
done.

Thanks for your advice Joseph.
Due to the other objects in the room I can't put the Kef C25 bookself
speakers at the back of the room. The speakers need to be half the
size of the Kef speakers for the rear of the room.
Yesterday I tried reconnecting the Kef C25 speakers and using a Sony
SAW250 sub woofer. I have'nt decided if I want to keep the sub woofer
yet. There was a lack of clearity and imaging at times. The sound
seems simular to playing back a MP3 file that had been recorded at a
sampling rate of 125K. Ther bass did help to give the singers voice
more body making it more realistic. The music seems to be more in the
background rather than jumping out of the speaker and grabbing your
attention when playing rock music.

I'll check on the speakers that you suggested thanks.

Regards Brian