Aperion Audio 632-LR or Monitor Audio Bronze B2 vs Klipsch RP600 mkII?

[RunOutGroove]

I have a pair of Klipsch RP600 mkII hooked up in an extra room. They are rather lively dynamic speakers, which I like and they by no means sound bad to my ears, but lately I've had an itch to sell these things and get something else which might have more heft in the middle. I feel like these Klipsch speakers are lacking something in the midrange. The bass, I'm less concerned with (which is weak to my ears with the Klipsch) in that I'm using a small subwoofer in the room to cover that end of it. I'm looking for speakers that would be about in the same range as what I could sell my Klipsch speakers for and so far I've seen in the local ads both Aperion Audio 632-LR and Monitor Audio Bronze B2 and I wonder how folks might compare these with the Klipsch and what their impressions of these things are? I'd be powering them with a Marantz 2270 receiver, they would be in a smallish room and my musical preferences are all over the map, though maybe biased towards jazz and more subtle type music than rock and roll...

I'm in no hurry to deal with this though, so if neither one of these speakers seems like much of an improvement, I could wait around to find something else...

 

[sound hound]

Have you read the Stereophile review of the Klipsch speakers?

Klipsch Reference Premiere RP-600M loudspeaker The RP-600M II August 2023 | Stereophile.com

Herb Reichert reviewed the Klipsch Reference Premiere RP-600M II in August 2023 (Vol.46 No.8): The grandest perk of being a reviewer is when sniffing through the grass leads me to a high-performance product capable of wide-ranging appeal at a price point that shouldn't scare anyone.

www.stereophile.com

I am wondering if you have any other other amplifiers to try with your speakers?

 

[RunOutGroove]

Have you read the Stereophile review of the Klipsch speakers?

Klipsch Reference Premiere RP-600M loudspeaker The RP-600M II August 2023 | Stereophile.com

Herb Reichert reviewed the Klipsch Reference Premiere RP-600M II in August 2023 (Vol.46 No.8): The grandest perk of being a reviewer is when sniffing through the grass leads me to a high-performance product capable of wide-ranging appeal at a price point that shouldn't scare anyone.

www.stereophile.com

I am wondering if you have any other other amplifiers to try with your speakers?

I realize there's a lot of praise for those speakers, and I certainly don't hate them. The speakers I had in that spot before, a pair of Quad 12L speakers had a richer tone to them, but lacked the dynamics of the Klipsch. Having had the Klipsch speakers for a while now, I'm looking for something with a fuller midrange character, but hopefully something with a bit more jump than the Quads. Incidentally, the other two speakers that I'm looking at have gotten pretty good reviews as well, it's just difficult to find comparisons between them.

As for the amp, I really only have one and I'm running these speakers as one of three sets I have hooked up to it, so if I were to swap the amp out, it would change the sound of the other couple of pairs that it powers, and those sound fine to me. I need to match the speakers to the amp and not vice versa.

 

[JackFrost]

I have the Aperion 532LR which is the little brother to the ones you are looking at.
I have them powered by a sherwood S-110cp receiver and a Klipsch sw-8 sub for the bottom end.
I think the voices through the Aperion speakers is just as good as my KEF Q series 3.
I find the newer Klipsch to be missing something in the midrange also.

 

[krautmaster]

I have a couple pair of the Monitor Audio Bronze 2 (slightly newer than the Bronze B2- same basic idea but with slightly different woofers in a more attractive package) and they sound very good, surprising how much bass they put out. Since the port is in the front you can place them very close to a wall or in a bookshelf.

 

[RunOutGroove]

I have the Aperion 532LR which is the little brother to the ones you are looking at.
I have them powered by a sherwood S-110cp receiver and a Klipsch sw-8 sub for the bottom end.
I think the voices through the Aperion speakers is just as good as my KEF Q series 3.
I find the newer Klipsch to be missing something in the midrange also.

Thanks for sharing your impressions. My original post was a few weeks ago, but as it turns out, those speakers are still for sale. The seller lives pretty far, so it would mean a big schlep to get there, but for how cheap they're selling for and how much I could probably get for my Klipsch speakers, I could likely not only make my money back, but the gas money and then some. It's a pretty scenic drive too and I could stop for a hike on the way. It does sound like I might dig these more than the Klipsch...