QUOTE(blueyan @ Dec 10 2012, 07:06 PM)
Hey all, I'm upgrading from my old Edifier M3300.
My top priority is music then movie , sometime play FPS games only, so I am looking for all around performance speaker. I am not a basshead and my room is quite small,so a powerful bass speaker is nono for me. But i need quality and punchy bass but not quantity bass.
based on the recommendation in front
1.Budget ~RM1400
Audioengine 5 (A5) (music) -popular
Reason: I know this is a very popular speaker for music . The only concern is, is the bass good enough for movies ? I think it is fine if the bass is better than my m3300. but now about Audioengine A5 vs S530D bass ? if they are almost the same, i will definitely choose audioengine a5.
2.Budget ~RM700
Edifier S530D (music, gaming) -popular
Reason: I have good impression on Edifier speaker based my previous m3300. It has good mid and high but not too boomy. I cross out S730 simply because the subwoofer are WAYYY TOO BIG.
the above choices is top 2 so far i like.
So, any suggestion ?
For RM700, you also can take a look on Hivi M50w, personally didnt appreciate how edifier s530d sound like...quite flat,bland,dull to my ear.
If you have high expectation of improvement in vocal, then...probably better go 2.0, mostly multimedia 2.1 speaker's weakness...
For 1.2K, Hivi M200KIII ,according other forum feedback, it should at least on par with audioengine 5
For 1.4K, Focal XS Book, which i using now, but i afraid it cant fulfill your requirement on bass good enough for movie...even through broken in...and found it punchy than out of box a lot, but it still cant go any deeper below 6xHz...which mean will loss quite a lot bass detail. but if u did not plan to sell off ur m3300, then u may try connect its subwoofer with those 2.0...try to compensate lower freq...but is that sound matching with ur new speaker or not....is a myth. (anyway i only recommend this....if you only plan use it in near field (1.5M~2M))
for all rounder, just ignore xs book...haha
This post has been edited by eremitic: Dec 11 2012, 12:53 AM