Ditching the Neats what next?

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    wadia-miester Mighty Rearranger

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    Alex,

    Getting some good speakers now? ATC or A*T Audio? :)
     
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    Nomoretweaks Tourist on tilt

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    What NEATs? I know a guy who is looking for used NEAT Ultimatum 9.
     
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    Mine are indeed MF9s and indeed for sale. I'm not ditching, I'm downsizing.
     
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    Tony,

    they are a bargain, and would probably help enormously with your bass problems.
     
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    TonyL Club Krautrock Plinque

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    What are you downsizing to?

    Tony.
     
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    garyi Wish I had a Large Member

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    SBLs.
     
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    Linn Kans, Alex recently told me.

    I think they'd be perfect for the room, mounting them in the middle of a huge space would let their raison d'être - pin-pont imaging - blossom.
     
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    Just to add: I've heard Alex's MF9s. Very, very good indeed.
     
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    wadia-miester Mighty Rearranger

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    Should work well in your room then Mike :)
     
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    I am looking at something totally inaccurate - at present, balance of music-making, money-saving, seems best served by LV OBX and Sugden A21. The Sugden is a great match with the LV - better than the Dynavectors which sound musclebound, yet are much better intrinsically, so long as they're asked to do some work - I took the DVs home and they were so shockingly good with the Shahinian Super Elves that I had to remove them immediately. I've been eyeing up the LV for a while since down-sizing seems much easier if based around efficient speakers. I wanted Shahinians but would need to keep the DVs - the Neats and the DVs are my hi-fi assets, the sources will stay put.

    BTW I heard no problem at Mike's bass-wise at all but understand the Merlins, if only to free up a bit of living space.
     
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    garyi Wish I had a Large Member

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    Alex you are in the wrong space right now, nothing will suffice, I hope you know that.
     
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    Alex, given that your room sucks out quite a bit of bass, it might be worth a trip to Cheltenham in the near future. Those BH2's have more than enough for most normal purposes.
     
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    Gary, you're right in a sense - since DVs/MF9s/JBL subs don't completely and effortlessly fill the room I've decided to give up trying. Amazingly, the LV/A21 combo fills the room pretty well so long as I don't stand in the sink.
     
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    A pair of active 100s would effortlessly fill your sink.
     
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    They're not inaccurate enough, even with my ghastly sources.
     
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    ATC = Dirty dishes analogy :eek:
     
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    The MF9s are provisionally sold. Thank you for your interest.
     
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    Well done! They were a bit on the ****e side.
     
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