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June 5, 2013, 12:10 AM #1
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2013 TAS Editors' Choice Awards: Desktop Loudspeakers
Paradigm Shift A2
$279-$329
paradigm.com
A 2012 Golden Ear recipient, the Shift A2 is more than just a cleverly named loudspeaker. Compact, internally powered, and equipped with DSP bass management and enough backpanel inputs to connect to almost any source, this is what 21st century entry-level high end is all about. A combination of sound and value, it extends the welcome mat to budding highenders who may have felt they couldnt afford the entrance fee.
Focal XS Book
$299
audioplusservices.com
While functioning best as nearfield monitors tethered to a good computer-audio system, the XS Book speakers also work beautifully as part of a smallroom bookshelf system. For $299 these powered speakers offer a lot of sound, flexibility, and functionality. And though, in the end, they are a lifestyle rather than an audiophile product, its a lifestyle that most people wont mind living.
B&W MM-1
$499
bwspeakers.com
Small and attractive enough to place on a desktop without rearrangements, the MM-1 features B&Ws famed Nautilus tweeter technology, a pair of 3" woofers, and four miniature, Class D, 18-watt amplifiers. The sound is notably natural with vocals, well balanced, and surprisingly open. Although there is no deep bass, whats there will satisfy most, without the need of a cumbersome addon subwoofer.
Magnepan Mini-Maggie
$1490$2285
magnepan.com
The Mini-Maggie system is a three-piece, ribbon-tweeter-equipped, planar-magnetic, dipole speaker system intended primarily for desktop use. Featuring small tweeter/ midrange panels that sit atop the desk and a two-channel mid/bass panel that sits in the footwell below, the Mini- Maggie package is arguably the finest desktop speaker made. In detail, resolution, purity, freedom from grain, soundstage width and depth, and, above all, coherence, it sounds like a pair of Magnepans exceptional 3.7s on a smaller scale.
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You should ask your dealer to bring the CH stuff he wants to sell you for home audition in your system. IMO there is no way to tell what will sound better in your system.
MSB Reference vs CH C1.2