Slowly ruling out larger speakers for the desktop and my focus/curiosity is on the micros at the moment. On paper they read like a linear harbeth P3, more energetic/engaging.
Side note is more energetic/engaging means more 3-5k?
Last picture before I move my setup away from this corner.
@SaberPunch I’m really impressed by these speakers. Finish, size, and sound are all great for the price. I like the presentation more on these vs the ATCs I had before. The ATCs were separation and timbre monsters. They also were painfully resolving especially when you played poorly recorded music. However, ATCs had this effortlessness to the presentation. Nothing was ever forced.
The Atalante 3s are quite neutral, no midbass bloat or anything. Great treble sparkle without being overboard. Great cohesiveness to the music. Nothing sticks out but vocals have a nice separation from the background. Wide soundstage and good imaging. Not quite as sharp as ATC and timbre isn’t as godly as the ATCs either but the whole package is better so far. I’ve only burned it in overnight so I still have some time to go before they’ve fully settled. First impressions are good though. I’m happy with the switch.
Nabbed some artnovian corner traps to try out on the desk to see if I can tame a 90-100 bump. These in particular are aimed at 50-80hz and doing their job but I think I need the artnovian ulysses panels which are 90-120hz. Just wanted to ensure I could make the corner traps work (audibly) before I considered buying anything.
The wellfloat a4 platforms are too big but they are soaking up all speaker vibrations. I’ve tried the various iso bases and iso acoustic pucks but all have let some form of vibration through to the desk until now.
Current nearfield setup. The only thing that might change is moving the desk a little further away from the windows and adding bass traps on that side. Overall, super happy with how everything is sounding with this setup and not looking to change anything anymore. Soundstage is wide, imaging is great, and vocals are effortless.
Such a great looking desk setup. Would be curious about your impressions of the sourcepoint 8s nearfield like that as they’ve been a pair I’ve been eyeing for my (small) room as well. Maybe we need to start a mofi thread? Either way congrats on the new speakers!
They are large but still fit very nicely on your desk, congratulations. I very much enjoyed the MoFi speakers when i first heard them. If you get bored of them on your desk use them as part of your HT set-up, i think they would be awesome TV speakers too
The reason I think they’re the best nearfield experience I’ve had is probably due to the 8" driver. I think there’s a tactility that no other smaller speaker I’ve heard and also dynamics, bass, vocal quality are all top notch. They don’t sound clinical and have a great weight to them. No need for a sub either. Honestly if you have the space to do what I’m doing, I would highly recommend them. If you have less space, my previous speakers, the revival audio atalante 3s are a great alternative.
I’m using some klipsch fortes as my TV speakers already
Here is how the current setup has settled so far, please ignore the messed up walls haha I’m wanting to redo all the walls in this room with drywall so I haven’t bothered fixing all the holes and screwed up bits.
I think they might be a little far apart, but can’t really do anything about that with this sized monitor lol I want to play around with toe in a bit more but I have found that they respond better to less than more, so I currently have a very conservative toe in applied.
I don’t see much discussion of the SuperMon Mini on this thread. I’m considering these as a desktop speaker: where they will be on either side of a computer monitor and about 1.5-2.5 feet away from me.
I understand that this distance is “too close” for even most nearfield monitors, but I have read good things of the Minis in this configuration. My (tube) amp is an LTA Ultralinear+ (20Wpc).
I wonder how this would compare to an Omega Compact Alnico or some LS3/5a speaker, for this use-case? I’d love other suggestions too. The only reason for considering the Omegas is that the UL+ is supposed to be better with more sensitive speakers.
I do plan to get a sub in any case, and of course proper isolation from the desk.
P.S. This is literally my first pair of audiophile speakers. I’ve always been a headphone person.
