Went to visit a hi fi and record store in New Hampshire a couple of weeks ago and after I left a stack of records on the counter to purchase, I spent some time looking around. Pretty high end, YG Acoustics, Stenheim, McIntosh, B & W, Rega and others. As I was looking at some speakers along a wall the leads to the business office, I noticed these Neat Motive demo speakers and was thrilled to have stumbled on them. I have always admired the brand but never saw them in the flesh. After paying for my records purchase and was driving home I was trying to decide If I was willing to make an offer on the pair. I thought about it the rest of the weekend and decided to give them a call on Tuesday morning when they reopened for business and see if they still had them which they did, so I asked them for their best price and we had a deal. I drove up there again on Wednesday, paid the man and took them home.
I've been thinking about adding an inexpensive solid-state amp and a new pair of smaller form factor speakers to our listening room for a while and was thinking of combining something like a Rotel "a" series integrated with a Spendor A2 if I could find one at a good price and if all else failed a Dali Oberon 5. When I saw the Neat's, I knew what I was going to do since I've read several times from numerous sources that Neat and Naim were the perfect paring, I sourced a new Naim Neat 5Si at a good price and ordered it and it arrived a few days later.
So far, I'm very impressed and the trio works extremely well with my existing sources and in this room in it's current configuration. I've experimented somewhat with speaker placement and the results with the music I've listed in the "what's on your turntable" thread and "your CDP" threads recently are exceptional, especially the Neil Young CD and the Stevie Ray Vaughn LP I played today!
@jond The Naim and the Neats have an incredibly expressive way of presenting music together that is not at all subtle. What comes out of these speakers defies their stature and Neat claims they can go down to 35Hz which I believe has been verified in independent testing
