Thankyou
Similar setup I just have mine a bit higher.
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Based on the design of the Skyland stands, Harbeth recommends that the tweeter be at ear level. In the end, go with what sounds best. Easy to adjust placement with the monitors. TBH, ive been lazy with trying different speaker placement on my 2ch.
I’m actually interested in trying some new speakers for nearfield listening, my kef lsx are giving up on me (loud pops on left speaker at random moments). This seem to fit what I’m looking for, don’t know if I’ll actually pull the trigger though…
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Ive never heard of XDA audio, but that means less than zero. I didnt know Thomas branched out into speaker collaborations. 15 day trial period with shipping and fees does give you some leeway. Id be curious to know what your next speaker would be and how they work out.
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Problem is I don’t know how often I’d be using them over headphones. But at least they’re not too expensive to get into.
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I have the inverse problem lol. After hearing good speakers, I can’t really bother with headphones anymore. It can’t nearly achieve similar presentation
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I hear ya… but my room acoustics says otherwise lol
You can get them for even cheaper here
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thanks for the temptation…
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you’re welcome!
One thing about nearfield is that room acoustics play a smaller part in the system compared to a normal audio room. You can get away with a lot but obviously you will also be limited to an extent. Once I started digging into building a nearfield system, my use case for headphones became basically nonexistent and is only used when necessary. It’s really hard to go back to headphones when you hear a good speaker system. I’d say take the leap. I don’t think you’ll regret it.
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My apologies, i misread about which speaker you were asking about. Have not heard the baby Wilson’s, only the bigger variety. If they are anything like their larger brethren they will pump out a completely different sound signature than the baby Harbeths. The Harbeths have a more nostalgic older tuning IMO, closer to their LS3/5a brethren. Tuned for voice w/ a bottom end clipped aound 75hz.
My opinion of the Wislons will be a more modern tuning w/ probably more build towards refinement and a leaner sound. 
Sorry, i’m being less than useless in my words. Good luck in whatever you decide, i’m sure things already sound pretty stupendous at your place 
Thankyou - yep the wilson tots.
Ive heard the sabrina and sabrina x at a friends place and loved the sound in the room/his setup - noting the tunetots would be different but similar.
The P3’s are doing a great job but I’m not sold on the tuning for all genres and wondering if its the mid bass hump (my take is they have one or something to give you the illusion of bass without adding a sub) is colouring things a bit too much and pushing the driver to distortion at times at 70-75db.
The biggest appeal of the P3 is its completely sealed which makes placement in my space a bit easier but as the rest of the system has grown over the past years I’m starting to ponder if its time to move them on for something else and the tunetots while silly expensive fit the description in most ways.
Next steps is to take my amp over to my friends and connect it up to the sabrina to see how it sounds, again it wont give me a like for like but it will be closer.
Sadly no demo tunetots available in my area.
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Here is some positive post from me as my mood gotten a lot better lol. Here are my top stress relievers: Working Out (Can’t since its close for this week); Eating Junkfood like a teenagers Coke & Pizza (Don’t like to eat junk on weekdays, messes my state of mind/stomach for work); and listening to loud bass tracks!
I retired my Polk R200 since I was expecting new speakers… but no speakers yet. So went through the week stressed out of my mind and didn’t want to listen to headphones because I was in a speaker mood. Finally hooked up my subwoofers to the Tiny Radials. Tiny Radials they called it…more like “Giant Radials”… at least very up close.
The Tiny Radials can sound pretty sound huge compared to how I listen to my Polk R200, but the big difference is that I am way closer to the Tiny Radials compared to the Polk R200. When I use the Polk R200, I am about 5 feet away and the speakers are about 6 in a half feet away from each other. With the Tiny Radials, it’s about 2 feet apart from each other and I am 1 feet away from the speakers. I am really close to the Tiny Radials! 1 thing I really like about the Tiny Radials that is the same before the subwoofer is the soundstage height. Before and after the subwoofer placement, soundstage height is always pretty impressive. The difference with a subwoofer, the atmosphere changes. The song I use is from one of my 2 favorite producers Giga P and Teddyloid - CH4NGE (Teddyloid Remix). Before the subwoofer, the beginning 30 seconds is whatever. After the subwoofer, beginning 30 seconds give me GOOSEBUMPS! I talked about it in the Audio Technica Thread when talking about my impression of the ATH-W10VTG, but bass REALLY changes the atmosphere and the mood of the song for me. Being able to hear the bass is haunting, and besides hearing the bass, feeling the bass just bring my excitement level up. Its really is engaging and always gets me in a good mood. Another thing I like about the Tiny Radials with a subwoofer is that the sound is more filling? I am not too sure what word I should use, but the Tiny Radials for some reason sound bigger and thicker to my ears with a subwoofer. The Tiny Radials is pretty close sounding to my Polk R200 in terms of music sounding huge (I hope that make sense). I think that is really impressive that the Tiny Radials despite its size could sound pretty big to my Polk R200 at 35% and I mean that as a compliment. The Polk R200 is powered by a 100W pc Schiit Vidar 2 while the Tiny Radials is powered by a Schiit Rekkr at 3W (I think the Tiny Radials is 4 ohm so the Schiit Rekkr is going to be 3W pc). Basically, the Tiny Radials can sound pretty similar to how I listen to my Polk R200 only in terms of how “big” the music sounds. But I want to also point out that I am way closer to the Tiny Radials compared to when I was using the R200. When I get 5 feet apart (speakers still 2 feet away from each other) from the Tiny Radials with a subwoofer, it gets thinner sounding and honestly doesn’t sound as impressive compared to being 1 foot from it (at least with bass-heavy synth-pop tracks). It’s really hard to go back to the Tiny Radials with no Subwoofer. I switch the on and off switch on the Subwoofer to compare and the Tiny Radial just sounds very incomplete without a subwoofer to the point where I am pretty shocked I was able to listen to the Tiny Radials for a couple of months without a subwoofer. That is some sick serial killer mindset I had back then for listening to the Tiny Radials without a subwoofer lol. So I guess what the subwoofer added to the Tiny Radials from my 1-3 hours (of the same song) of listening is making the sound bigger and meatier and the atmosphere just drastically changed for the better for me. I think people were right and the subwoofer makes a world of difference with the Tiny Radials cause these speakers just sound soooooo good with a subwoofer. Man, I would looooove to buy more and explore more Decware speakers to see how they sound since the Tiny Radials is such a cool desktop speakers. I think one of the biggest obstacle for me buying speakers is I do not know where to put the speakers at lol.
Chain: NS1 > Evo DAC> Schiit Jotunheim R Preamp > Schiit Rekkr > Acoustic Audio PSW-6 subwoofer > Tom Stanley’s Tiny Radial Speakers
Honestly hearing this makes me rethink this entire hobby lol. I think I was always a speaker type of guy, but didn’t found out until all the money was spent on headphones. I started in this hobby with built-in car speakers and enjoy music on the road, to Chinese ear plugs, to bluetooth gear, to audiophile headphones, and now I kinda circle back to speakers. So far in this digital audio listening hobby, the most fun experience for me is the Onkyo A800 and 2-channel speakers with subwoofers. The most impressive thing in this hobby to me is the Mysphere 3.2 for sounding so natural to the point where its kinda of scary of how natural a headphone can sound and I would have never thought in a million years. I told myself I will dedicate this year to speakers and upgrading the DAC. I think hearing the Tiny Radials sounding not so tiny help me confirm this is what I really want in this hobby right now.
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I have said to myself many times that if ever I reconfigure my desk for actual computer use, work, play, etc. where I want multiple monitors in front of me and need the desktop space fairly clear in order to accommodate the monitors I’m buying another set of tiny radials and will be done with it, Those little things disappear on the desk, physically, visually and spatially in the soundstage due to their size and Omni directional nature. 
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I’m kicking around an upgrade from the P3 esr XD as I’m finding it’s distorting in the low end when pushed past 70db and figure the easiest way to resolve is to move to something with a larger woofer.
I’m using them in nearfield desktop and nearfield (stands on the chair side of the desk at times).
I posted in the speaker thread a photo of my zu bookshelves on desk to get an idea of what size speaker I could handle on the desk and the zu are as large as I could go.
This all has me wondering however, can you go do big with nearfield desktop?
Shortlist is (based on what is locally accessible)
Keep my zu on the desk though they need a good sub to sound right
Devore micro - sealed full range
Harbeth m30 - front ported 2 way
Gershman studio - sealed 2 way
Wilson tune tots - ported 2 way
Wilson p1.0 - stands and ported bottom
Thankyou
0/babies?
Yep. Too big unfortunately
Is this real? Your setup? Where is this from?
