Elac Debut Reference DBR62 vs Wharfedale Diamond 220

These speakers continue to impress me. These are the first bookshelf speakers that I can honestly don't need a sub for music use. I do have a nice SVS SB2000 Pro but I'm finding that compared to all my other bookshelf speakers, I'm turning it way down with these. With my rp600m's I'd use around -14db on the sub, with these Elac Reference I'm using -24db

I'm new to the hi-fi game and so these are the best speakers I've owned. I think the rose gold cones are a nice accent to the rest of my system which is black. My last speakers were budget speakers (Wharfedale Diamond 220) which sounded nice at lower volume but struggled when I turned the knob hard right. These are clearly in a different league

Went to a local electronics store, went through some blu rays, didn't find anything nice, thought i go by the audio equiment, some nice av-receivers, some bluetooth speaker - and then...several speakers for a lot less that normal

If you have $190 to spend on those used speakers with no warranty (I don’t care what the seller claims, if they have no warranty then you should think of them as used) then you are ten bucks away from affording a pair of Wharfedale Diamond 220’s. I would choose those, no question. They’ll have a sound that’s more neutral, probably a bit toward the warm side of neutral, which for most people’s ears is a better bet. I would also probably choose the Wharfedales over the Elacs others have posted here

What you'll get with the DBR62 is a very flat and neutral overall sound with seriously impressive bass extension for their size, a wonderful midrange (that is missing from many other speakers that prefer to showcase how high and low they can go while leaving you with a U shaped frequency response), and not to mention sweet delicate highs. The DBR62s also produce a very holographic image rather than giving you a locked-in sweet spot (like my old Bronze 2 did). Listen to a showcase track like Bubbles from Yosi Horikawa and you'll understand. I also auditioned the Elac Uni-Fi UB5 and preferred the DBR62 due to an overall more neutral response

com/products/diamond-11-0-bookshelf-speakers#). What you'll find is that they will need help in the low end because their frequency response is 75hz to 20kHz, so it means a sub..