13' x 9' room big enough?

IMHO, If I had to build a system for listening in a similar size room I would go for a high quality source, a good tube headphone amp and the most comfortable headphones I could afford to buy.

Very interesting suggestions, never tried a setup in a small room with subwoofer. What do you guys think about a REL Q 150 or 200, is this the way to go?

A friend has a very large room, something like 18 x 30 and he uses 5 watt single ended Cary's to drive his Alon Adriana's coupled with a REL Stantor. Amazing sound I must say for such a large room and such a small amp driving them. The music just flows from those speakers and one never needs to really crank up the volume. The REL actually filled in the bottom octave so well we never thought was missing.

The Alon's on their own go down to something like 35 Hz at best and the REL crossover has been set at 25 currently. We tried various crossover frequencies in two or three sessions but settled for 25 (the lowest on the knob) and now the things seem absolutely OK, to our ears that is.

I will need to check the REL site for the downward firing sub they offer.

Thanks for the tip