You might be surprised by what a single mono powered speaker will accomplish in a space like that. I use a Bluesound Pulse Flex 2i. It has a built in streamer and 30W amplifier plus it’s wireless other than a power cord. It doesn’t occupy much space and is easily moved room to room as needed. BluOS app offers thousands of radio stations too. The speaker has 5 programmable presets so no need to even open your phone/tablet for operation. Volume control is included too. There are also equalizer settings available in the BluOS app if you need them.
Distance between speakers - are the physics what they are?
In now spending so much time in my kitchen it dawned on me that it would be a great space to set up some older components I had in storage. It's great now having music in the kitchen but wish the speaker soundstage could be better. The set up is using a pair of stand-mounted B&W 600 S3, which are "fine" but no doubt there are other similarly sized speakers that could perform better. However. with the wall space I have to work with, distance between the any speakers would be, from tweeter to tweeter, about 3.5 feet.
Is not being able to put more distance between the speakers mean any upgrade would be a waste since the physics would prevent them from ever sounding as good as they should?
Is not being able to put more distance between the speakers mean any upgrade would be a waste since the physics would prevent them from ever sounding as good as they should?