How to spend the Bush tax rebate??

mwelna

Hello all. I'm new to the forum and currently own monitor 8t's and RTA 8tl's powered by a Marantz 2270. When the bush tax credit comes out I am looking to do my duty as an American and stimulate the economy by upgrading one set of my speakers. Currently in Minneapolis there are SDA 2a's, Monitor 11T's, and a pair of LS 70's available around $300. I have always wanted LS 90's and am therefore leaning toward the 70's. Knowing nothing about my listening habits or music preferences does anyone have any advice about these models? Also, I've read discussions on other threads about not using loudness buttons for the sake of musical purity. Does this apply to the Marantz as well? Love the site. Thanks in advance.
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hoosier21

first, no loudness button.

you will have to do some research on those models and pick one, they are all good.

Windwalker

I've already spent mine

In the last 90 days

HT
1 PR R50s from Frys-$65 each with shipping for HT set-up(since sold for exactly what I paid for them-the sound just wasn't there, IMHO)
1 PR 5JR+, $40 from CL to replace the R50s(much happier, as HT doubles for music 90% of the Time)and the match my original pair of 5JRs
1 CSi3 Center Channel for the HT, $50 off CL
1 M&K SUB, $165 off CL
2 PR of some nice speaker stands, for the 5JR, $30-off CL

NBS(New Basement set-up, or No Better Sound, or No BS !!!)
1 PR SDA 2B-At A VERY good Price, from CL
1 PR Monitor 7, $50 from CL,

1 Pioneer SA7800, 1 Pioneer TX7800, 1 Pioneer PL-518 TT-$50 for all of it
in a HELLA-deal from CL. Drives my new(to me) 7s rather nicely-Until I can rearrange some furniture for my SDAs

So that's pretty much the Polk stuff

But there's been some others folks' stuff as well, including
1 PR-Boston Acoustic HD10
1 PR-Boston Acoustic A60(2BF-to be foamed)
1 PR-AR18s(2BF)
1 PR-Infinity Reference Sixes(2BF)
1 PR Advent Heritage(2BF)
1 PR Advent Laureate(2BF)
1 Sansui 4000-receiver
1 HK 3270-receiver

I'm sure I'm missing something.
I think I need to sell some toys or stop spending my unemployment checks so freely.
It's Hard to being a one man support team for the entire GDP :cool:

avguytx

Paying off a credit card since it's free money. Well, not free per se. But you know... I have enough equipment for the moment.

lakesailor

I used to have pair of LS70's and while they look great; they didn't hold a candle to the 11T's that I still own. The 11T's have much better low end, in fact they have about the best "tight" bass I have found even with speakers at the three times the price. Amazingly the 11T's track all the way down to 18hz; almost 10hz lower than the LS 70's. The 11T's are also amazingly efficient at 94db; 4db higher than the Ls 70’s. I have always found the 11T to be a very magical speaker.

muncybob

Think I will upgrade the tweeters in my 2B's and do the crossover update as well. Also considering one of the universal players from OPPO. I have a Pioneer universal player but it does not have bass management for multichannel recordings and I think the OPPO's do? Will be keeping my eyes open for a pair of efficient floor standing speakers to put in my recently created game room...just not sure what to get. Now my wife probably already has all this $$ spent so maybe it will just be the tweeters!:(

wallstreet

I think I'll save mine.