Arendal 1528 Bookshelf VS 1723 THX Towers! The Two GIANT KILLER Speakers For Home Audio!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- I compared two audiophile speakers deemed to be the best under $5000 for home audio. The Arendal 1723 THX Towers VS Arendal 1528 Bookshelf 8 Speakers!
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Jay you really do an awesome job with your explanations and presentation; Super informative and always enjoyable to watch. Thank you!
This has been on my mind.. Do I trade up from what I have for books? Thanks for putting these thoughts out there.
I bought the 1723 (towers) for 2k… the 1528 are 4.5k… this is twice the price!
And using a Elekit 8900 as power amp with 2a3, sensitivity is important for me.
I was looking forward for the 1528 towers but the price diff + the decreased sensitivity was killer for me. And I’m so happy with those 1723 (basses are awesome 🥰), it would be a bit stupid to change them (especially when I know my room is not ´ideal’)
Hi jay, thank you for this comparison video. Do you think the 1528 bookshelf enough or too much for my 12x18ft untreated room?
Yes, great idea comparing these two. I've been wondering if the 1528 is worth th extra money
Although I've got a big room (~5350m3), I like the flexibility of placement w/sub reinforcement. Based on this, the 1528 monitors might be my goldilocks. Any chance a review on the monitors might be in queue? Thx.
Jay, what is the vinyl album holder you have on the floor? It is nice.
I am curious about the dispersion pattern of the 1528, given the shape of the baffle. I would think it would be narrow and that the sweet spot would be small. They’re pointing the drivers at a particular place where you would sit. If it’s a wide sweet spot, how do they achieve that when the baffle seems to beam.
You can see in my off axis measurements that its not narrow at all. I think its due to the waveguide and acoustic grill. Baffle is not crazy curved to have the effect you are talking about
Hi Jay, Annyeong~
I placed an order for 1723 tower arriving next week after I saw your review as I use pushpull tube amps. And Now 1528... you mentioned Brunoco was ok in mid size room... How do you think 1528 Monitor? Bit higher sensitivity. 59+14 vs 40 cost wise. Do you recommend canceling 1723 and go with 1528 Monitor? Between book shelf and Monitor, what will be a your choice? Thanks in adance.
Hi Jay, how do these pair with Hegel amps? I have the H390. Also, will you review Magnepan 2.7i???
I have a large room 24x18 with 12 ft A frame ceiling. My listening position is about 19 ft away. Would the 1528 bookshelf be up to the task of filling out the room or should I look elsewhere?
Get the 1528 towers
Still would appreciate your promised suggestions for alternative speaker stands for the 1528 Bookshelves. The one that Arendal offers is a whopping $1400. For that money you can already buy a pretty good high end speaker. Thanks!
Monoprice stands: amzn.to/4jOTCZx
*I have a few of these, Fill it with sand and you have yourself a rock solid stand but the spikes are cheap so you might want to switch that out to something else or just use pucks instead - Remember to get the right height, watching my video will help with deciding what height you need based on your seated listening height*
Id love or even sell both balls for a set of either of these i have Monolith Encore 5 channel setup they where desighned by Don Roemer same guy that desighned these for Arendal they are freaking unbelievable I can only imagine how these are
5.300 USD/Pair on the Arsenal website. where are they selling for 4000? I live in Canada, I don't think audio excellence sells these?
Its more expensive in Canada due to import laws here. Audio excellence does not sell these. They are direct only with 60 day in-home trial
@@Jayiyagi Thank you Jay!
i often wonder what folks mean when they say a speaker is forgiving on poor recordings. i've owned lots of speakers and all of the better ones, more costly, played it as it was recorded. exactly how is a speaker forgiving of poor recordings? less overall clarity? who wants that. anyhoo my 2 cents as my maggies make poor recordings sound .. well, poor. maybe 'poor' is subjective.
How do you know you are hearing as it was recorded?
@@Jayiyagi I think you missed my point I can hear all of the bad recording, quality, compression dynamics, etc.
Means it smooths over the flaws in the recording. Cheap speakers are less able.
Thats awesome but if you are hearing them the way they were recorded as you’ve said. I guess they sound poor as it was recorded that way?
Forgiving means it makes poor recordings more enjoyable to listen to
@@Jayiyagi that is my point. Never experienced that myself. Bad recording sounded always bad . Subjective I guess