Piega Speakers

[Mattia]

I open this discussion because in my quest for new speakers, I listened to some Piega powered by Accuphase systems and liked them a lot.

I must say that my small (16m2) audio room is fully dedicated and acoustically treated, but I find that right now the 801 S3 "fill up" too quickly the room, especially in the bass region. To balance the things out I must quite heavily equalise and lower the bass output of the system, but I don't think it is an ideal situation.
It also seems to me that the 801 really "come alive" and balance themselves at a wattage that simply produce too much SPL in my room for my taste, before that wattage level they are not so dynamic, they feel a bit slow and sit.
Plus, they are very big and pose some constrain to positioning.


So I'm inclined to try some smaller speakers, probably more conceived and engineered for situations like mine.

At the shop, in a room not much bigger than mine, I tried a pair of Piega Classic 60 and a pair of Piega Premium 50.2, amplification and pre-amplification were Accuphase A-46 / A-70 and Accuphase C-2420 / C-3850.

The "C2" midrange/tweeter of the Classic 60 was especially good: very linear, precise but not at all fatiguing. The Premium 50.2 sport a more conventional configuration with a ribbon tweeter and a cone for the midrange: I found them a little less linear in transition between mid and tweeter, that in the Classic 60 is perfectly seamless.

Regarding bass, in both cases I think it was "more" than I'll ever need in my room.

But then maybe even smaller speakers would suffice: Piega Coax 30.2, with the same wonderful C2 Coax ribbon mid+tweeter but smaller woofer section, for example.

Some reviewer even said that he found the Coax mid/tweeter Piega more balanced in not too big configuration: woofers and mid/tweeter better integrated.

If you have experience with Piega, I am all ears (Aurumer this is for you ).



P.S. I'm not closed to other options, like for example Dynaudio Confidence C1 or C2 (I only listened to C4), Focal Sopra No1 or Diablo Utopia, Magico "1" spekers,... so if you also have experience with good, smallish speakers in small rooms, by all means they are very welcome.
Ideally I prefer not to have bookshelf with stands, don't know why