Last night the audio gods punished me (perhaps for questioning Mr. Mark Levinson) by causing one of the woofers on my well-aged Genesis IM-5200s to fail. This came as a shock: I was listening to chamber music at the time, and I never listen at high volumes. In any event, I confirmed in a phone conversation with Mr. Gary Koh in 2012 that the woofers on the IM-5200s are no longer stocked by Genesis, and poking around the internet, I can find neither a replacement woofer nor any useful specifications that would allow me to select another driver.
Fortunately, my JOB 225 is still fully functional (phew), so I'm looking for a new pair of speakers to use with it. I live in Manhattan and don't have a great deal of space, so I'd like to find a pair of monitors with a front ported or acoustic suspension design. This criterion eliminates a lot of promising candidates, such as the Focal monitors and the ubiquitous LS50s.
Today I heard a pair of B&W 805Ds, and I felt the treble was less airy than that from my old IM-5200s. I also was disturbed by a particular treble emphasis of the 805Ds: listening to string instruments, I felt as though I heard more transient attack than I did tone.
I've had my eye on the TAD TSM-2201-LRs for a few weeks now, but no one whom I trust knows much about them. They meet my criteria, I can buy them online, and they're probably well-engineered.
Do the wise WBF contributors have other recommendations?
Fortunately, my JOB 225 is still fully functional (phew), so I'm looking for a new pair of speakers to use with it. I live in Manhattan and don't have a great deal of space, so I'd like to find a pair of monitors with a front ported or acoustic suspension design. This criterion eliminates a lot of promising candidates, such as the Focal monitors and the ubiquitous LS50s.
Today I heard a pair of B&W 805Ds, and I felt the treble was less airy than that from my old IM-5200s. I also was disturbed by a particular treble emphasis of the 805Ds: listening to string instruments, I felt as though I heard more transient attack than I did tone.
I've had my eye on the TAD TSM-2201-LRs for a few weeks now, but no one whom I trust knows much about them. They meet my criteria, I can buy them online, and they're probably well-engineered.
Do the wise WBF contributors have other recommendations?
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