I think you’re severe limited by your room setup. A room calibration would benefit you the most - I’d suggest you start out with a umic 1 and rew to take some measurements and see what’s going on frequency response wise then consider whether room correction would help you. It may be that the...
I'd just go ahead and order if I where you - for example the below two are showing in stock and 3 day delivery. Maybe the back office person didn't talk to the front office person :)
https://premiumsound.co.uk/product/speakers/centre-channel/kef-r2c-centre-channel-speaker/...
Here you go:
https://premiumsound.co.uk/product/speakers/centre-channel/kef-r2c-centre-channel-speaker/
https://homeavdirect.co.uk/kef-r2c-centre-speaker-gloss-black
https://www.spatialonline.co.uk/products/kef-r2c-r-series-centre-speaker?variant=39319296737378¤cy=GBP...
I’ve got a single 3000micro with the kef R3s. I’ve posted measurements earlier on in this sub. They reach quite comfortably down to 20hz and volume wise it offers much more than my neighbours can handle. So personally I am happy with it as it’s small, good looking and performing amazingly well...
To be fair you will most likely need a sub for movies due to the LFE channel, as most speakers can’t really reach down that low (20hz).
Also a sub gives you the opportunity to optimise bass response due to freedom of placement.
Personally I’d go with stand mounters and subs as they are then...
If your speakers are decent, simply download the audissey app and set the frequency correction limit to 300-400hz. Anything above that would be your speakers without correction.
Why? Because the biggest issues that the calibration is trying to fix are in the base region and that is where you...
I had contemplated the same thing before I realised I didn’t even use 10% the power of the amp as was listening to regular volume :)
More power would help at high listening volumes. What db are you listening to on average?
It’s worth upgrading just for audussey xt32 in my view. It will help out sort out room issues massively compared to I think the plain XT that yours has (?), especially with a sub involved.
I’ve experimented with my R3s and 3000 micro with the ports fully and partly plugged and completely unplugged.
It will all depend on your room placement. I’ve got mine close to the wall so a completely unplugged scenario caused a significant hump around the XO frequency with the sub. Fully...
No sale in the UK. Only 20% off if you part exchange (any?) speaker. In the past when the R300s were end of life there were some pretty decent (50% off) sales on them.