Restless,

+1 on what Wayne and everyone else are saying. Triton Ones if you can swing it! Sounds like I may have purchased mine just prior to a price hike... If the T1s are a bit too much, the T2s get you most of the way there for far less. You now have the Triton Fives that will go down to about 50hz before dropping 3dB but since you sound like a fellow bass lover and you can't do a separate sub, you may need to stick with the powered towers.

Honestly, with GET, it's hard to go wrong. Go and audition as many models as you can and go for the best speaker you can afford. I had to save a few months to swing the T1s but I'm confident it will have been worth the wait. Don't be restless and pull the trigger too soon! Good luck and happy hunting. Please let us know how your auditions go.

Cheers,

T Cobe

Triton 1s!

Thanks for all the comments! Money is a bit of an issuesince I plan on starting school next school year (september).
I was thinking spending about 2000€. I had my eyes on the Five, how do these perform vs the Triton Three's?

Is the built-in subwoofer that much of an advantage? I don't want tons of excessive bass, I want deep, clean and tight bass .

- Restless

Hey Restless,
We get it about money being tight for these things, at least for most of us.
The T3s will give you tight, coherent and well integrated bass, but not a ton of it. Maybe just what you are looking for.
I have not had the pleasure of hearing the T5s.
All the best,
God Bless,
Wayne

Hey everyone,

I'm planning on going to listen to them, but I don't want to until I can take them with me straight away haha.
I have less experience as some of the veterans on here, so for me it's quite hard to distinguish between "I like this" and "I'm used to this". I also need to hear speakers side by side, if I listen to one now, and in an hour I find it very hard to decide which one sounded better, I guess due to lack of experience. I do know, that I liked the DefTech Mythos STS I heard. But I also read that it lacks the "punch" to full the room with sound. And I don't want to spend 5000 for a pair of ST-L's if I can get the same performance for more than half the money with the Triton series.

Would my NAD C356BEE be a good match with the Triton's? Or do they need a huge power reserve to really shine?

Cheers!

Hi Restless,
Listening to music with the speakers yourself is the best way to go. Take along music that you are familiar with and that shows what a speaker can do. And try to match the levels of the sound as closely as possible. Louder almost ALWAYS sounds better, just a function of how our brain works. So don't listen to one speaker louder than the other.
The NAD will be fine I am sure. PLENTY of power. Do you have it already? IF SO then use it.
IF NOT, this review says it has lots of power but not so much subtlety:
www.whathifi.com/nad/c356bee/review
Not sure if that is true or not, up to you, but power, no worries for any of the Triton series, IMHO.
Enjoy the hunt, this is all fun.
God Bless,
Wayne