Dynaudio Contour 60 too much for 14x13x11 room?

Contour 60’s are much TOO big for that size room.  I too think the 20’s would be plenty, particularly with subs.  As testpilot says you need to look at your room, or having to turn up the volume that much on your amp, I’d look at the amp too.  Something isn’t right somewhere.

My room had bass dropouts regardless of placement until I went with speakers with side firing woofers. I don't understand how or why it would matter and I was also trying different amps so the reason could have been low impedance suckouts, but if you can get a db meter and walk around the room you should find a spot bass is strong [check corners) if it's room nodes.

Thank you everyone. There is an open fireplace on the wall where the speakers are. I’m new to this, but I’m pretty sure that the problem. yes, I know, I'm dumb.

I have a few Dynaudio systems in different sized rooms and your liberal use of the dial may be perfectly normal. The Contour 60 is marginally more sensitive then the 20, but since you are using subs that advantage is largely negated, and you’d likely be on a similar spot on the dial. The 585 should be plenty of power in that room. One thing I would check though is your source output voltage. The normal voltage output should be around 2 volts and if your source is putting out less, it will have a direct relationship on how much dial you need for a given volume. Some digital components have an adjustable output, if you are using CD or vinyl you may have to check the output specs of your player.

You're not dumb, at least not in this regard as speaker room interactions are quite common and placement can make massive differences in sound.