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Best Speaker For This Room

We recently moved and I've been entertaining ideas of replacing my speakers, but want to make sure I'm getting ones that will work well with the room they are going in.

The Room
- Floor concrete slab covered with carpet
- 16" X 21" speakers 2.5' out from long wall (bookshelves)
- ceiling is 7.5' for most of the room, but 6.5" over the center of the listening area
- Listening seating is 9.5 from speaker position
- Wall behind listening position is 4' back in the middle and 7' back on the sides

Speakers I've been considering include:
Magnepan 1.7s
Martin Logans
Decware Radials
Or just keeping my Tyler traditional box speakers

Given the room, what are speaker would actually create the best sound stage and imaging?
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martykl
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Assuming that the 6.5" central ceiling height (Duck!) is actually 6.5' (Duck, if you play in the NBA ;-} ), that's your overriding concern, right there. I'd probably try to find something with a tweeter that had limited vertical dispersion like some ribbons, planars, or possibly the Gallo tweeter. Beyond that, the room (again, assuming that 16X21 represents feet) should allow most speakers to work pretty well.

Good Luck,

Marty
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