A little Background:
I currently have the following system in a room size of 13.1 feet * 11.9 feet (4M*3.6M). My usage has typically been 90% Movies and 10% Music but in future planning for 70% Movies and 30% music.
Amp: Onkyo TX-SR304E
Sub: Onkyo SL-107
FS: SKF-4700F
Surround: SKM-4700S
Center: SKC-4700C
Source: Popcorn Hour C200 (mostly) and A110
Starting this month, I started looking out for some upgrade options. Went to Vector and listened to the Dali Zensor, Heco, Dali IKON 6, Dali Helicon with mostly marantz. They had B&W (don't remember series) and Helicon connected in the 5.1 setup and I immediately liked the Helicon over the B&W.
Then realized it was way over my budget. Came down and listened to Zensor, Heco and Dali IKON 6 in stereo setup with mostly music content and I really liked the Dali IKON 6 and again it seems to be almost 90K for a pair and the 5.1 system will cross 2L easily. Dali Zensor were also pretty decent.
Later I visited Audio People and auditioned MA BX6, MA RX6 and in that to my surprise I liked MA BX6 with Sunfire subwoofers and the Amp was Denon 2113. Most people usually like RX6 and hence the surprise. Denon 2113 was the Amp I shortlisted so I almost got to listen to the real setup in a way.
Now the dilemma:
Since my budget is around a max of 2L and the MA BX6 with Sunfire Subs and Denon 2113 is stretching it by almost 15-20K more. The primary concerns I have:
1. Will MA BX6 be a little too much for room of my size?
2. The Amp was kept at volume of 60.0 to actually get something coming out of the speakers and even tried with Denon 3113 model where the difference was not clearly noticeable to my average ears
. Again it was to be pushed beyond 55. Is this something of a concern? The reason I am asking is my Onkyo at volume level of 40 clearly induces nice power to my current speakers.
3. Came back from the showroom and started watching the same movie clips (Red, X-Men:First Class etc.) in my current setup, my current assessment is the BX6 should add a little detail but the bass should be a little more tight with sunfire. Again I understand a lot of this relies upon what settings are configured etc. on the amp. But I can clearly see the music experience will be definitely better as the couple of sample tracks I heard there sounded really better.
4. Have been reading that MA BX6 might need some burn in time etc. Would be needing some advice on how important is this?
My primary reason for upgrading is that I want the new system to have strong center channel (clear vocals) for movies at the same time not compromising on the Bass for the action scenes. Since I am content with the Bass of my current system, the vocals are driving these decisions. Should I get the Dali IKON 6 auditioned with Denon speakers in a 5.1 setup as well? As clearly the 5.1 package is way too expensive, I am keeping that option at Bay. One option here is definitely to go with Dali IKON center and fronts, Denon 2113 and Sunfire Sub and listen to all of them together.
I am opening up these thoughts for inputs from various experts in this forum who either have similar experience or can guide me better around this. Please share your thoughts. Since it is a 2L investment and hence I am little jittery
Note: Not able to delete it. I have posted the same in Speakers sub forum. Moderator can delete this thread and we can have the discussion in that forum.
I currently have the following system in a room size of 13.1 feet * 11.9 feet (4M*3.6M). My usage has typically been 90% Movies and 10% Music but in future planning for 70% Movies and 30% music.
Amp: Onkyo TX-SR304E
Sub: Onkyo SL-107
FS: SKF-4700F
Surround: SKM-4700S
Center: SKC-4700C
Source: Popcorn Hour C200 (mostly) and A110
Starting this month, I started looking out for some upgrade options. Went to Vector and listened to the Dali Zensor, Heco, Dali IKON 6, Dali Helicon with mostly marantz. They had B&W (don't remember series) and Helicon connected in the 5.1 setup and I immediately liked the Helicon over the B&W.
Then realized it was way over my budget. Came down and listened to Zensor, Heco and Dali IKON 6 in stereo setup with mostly music content and I really liked the Dali IKON 6 and again it seems to be almost 90K for a pair and the 5.1 system will cross 2L easily. Dali Zensor were also pretty decent.
Later I visited Audio People and auditioned MA BX6, MA RX6 and in that to my surprise I liked MA BX6 with Sunfire subwoofers and the Amp was Denon 2113. Most people usually like RX6 and hence the surprise. Denon 2113 was the Amp I shortlisted so I almost got to listen to the real setup in a way.
Now the dilemma:
Since my budget is around a max of 2L and the MA BX6 with Sunfire Subs and Denon 2113 is stretching it by almost 15-20K more. The primary concerns I have:
1. Will MA BX6 be a little too much for room of my size?
2. The Amp was kept at volume of 60.0 to actually get something coming out of the speakers and even tried with Denon 3113 model where the difference was not clearly noticeable to my average ears
. Again it was to be pushed beyond 55. Is this something of a concern? The reason I am asking is my Onkyo at volume level of 40 clearly induces nice power to my current speakers.3. Came back from the showroom and started watching the same movie clips (Red, X-Men:First Class etc.) in my current setup, my current assessment is the BX6 should add a little detail but the bass should be a little more tight with sunfire. Again I understand a lot of this relies upon what settings are configured etc. on the amp. But I can clearly see the music experience will be definitely better as the couple of sample tracks I heard there sounded really better.
4. Have been reading that MA BX6 might need some burn in time etc. Would be needing some advice on how important is this?
My primary reason for upgrading is that I want the new system to have strong center channel (clear vocals) for movies at the same time not compromising on the Bass for the action scenes. Since I am content with the Bass of my current system, the vocals are driving these decisions. Should I get the Dali IKON 6 auditioned with Denon speakers in a 5.1 setup as well? As clearly the 5.1 package is way too expensive, I am keeping that option at Bay. One option here is definitely to go with Dali IKON center and fronts, Denon 2113 and Sunfire Sub and listen to all of them together
.I am opening up these thoughts for inputs from various experts in this forum who either have similar experience or can guide me better around this. Please share your thoughts. Since it is a 2L investment and hence I am little jittery
Note: Not able to delete it. I have posted the same in Speakers sub forum. Moderator can delete this thread and we can have the discussion in that forum.
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