I am using the Carnival series as my HT speaker. I'd say for the kind of money i paid for them it's pretty good. However is you can stretch abit more get the Avant. Carnivals are the entry level MS speakers. Hope this helps.

I only listend to Wharfedale Diamond 9.1 and Tannoy before.
Tannoy is musical, sweet and mellow, easy to get you involve in music. IMO Whafy is sligtly warm and Tannoy is more to neutral.
I preffer Tannoy.

I will get an Used speaker rather than new entry level budget speaker,
since now you are using MS Declaration 902, i doubt the upgrade will bring significant improvements.

i am oso a carnival 2 user it is a nice speaker with neutral sounding
and its classic looks nice for me
i try some solid amplifier "a bit" hard and lifeless sounding
the best matching amp i try before is the AUDIOROMY 838a
some audio shop taukea tell me if using a high power amp like 200W to push it will be nice
i am still searching the best matching amp and speaker cable for next upgrade under RM3k like audo space,marantz,shanling,creek,audiolab
sifu here any idea which friendly shop to try?
is carnival stop production edy?

ah because normally highter watt amplifier better in contorlling ~~"

i using carnival 2 for my hifi wut i can say sound are warmer than avant 901 due the tweeter is soft dome .....

Always get speakers with lower watts than your amp.

If the amp's power rating is below that of the speaker, the amp will try too hard to keep up, if you like, with the speaker which means the amp will 'clip' which could possibly cause more damage than over-rating the speakers.

If the amp that is more powerful than the power rating of the speakers, provided the power rating of the amp was not a great deal more than the rating of the speakers (50 watts +) then there should not be a great problem provided you as the customer are sensible when it comes to running the speakers. That means, don't crank the volume up too much, but that's not anybody's intention to have a hi-fi system anyway.

Acctually I typed something here yesterday, wonder why it didn't came up in this page.
Anyway, I bought the 902i ontop from 9.1 & Carnival. comparing these 3, if you like clean mids and crisp highs 9.1 will never suit your taste (on my opinion)
Carnival and 902i are though to decide well we can just leave the price off as they are quite the same. I found that the carnival tends to give you slighty more bass and less clarity on the vocals, 902i is pretty much the opposite.
Well there's never a final purchase, so no worries if made a wrong choice, they are all good. For my case, I like mine cuz it just sound so clean, but i was only comparing them with 9.1&Carnival .. and also the PSB B1. (*within same price range lo)
Hope this helped.

i using carnival 2 for my hifi wut i can say sound are warmer than avant 901 due the tweeter is soft dome .....

yup,u will continue to purchase once u get poisons.

how is the comparison between MS902 and MABR2?

i get mine for RM 790 at amcorp mall but mine already mod the speaker sound more better my mod almost 60% of the price of the speaker the internal i change the crossover change better cap and coil. sound more detail

this speaker no need soo high power to run it me just use 40w RMS Marantz is more than enuf due the sensitivity is 90db 15w-100w soo easy to push no worry just matching problem

How was the Rotel RA-04? TS mentioned he auditioned it.

what price range is the carnivals in?