Help with Speaker Selection

Used Magnepans fit this bill quite well IMHO. They sound their absolute best in very large rooms where they can be pulled far away from the front wall. Their inherent dipolar dispersion sound pattern typically gives extra "life" and "ambience" to the recording, particularly if you are using older - lesser top flight electronics driving them (a point source speaker does nothing to add these ambient and spatial cues that older electronics are more often than not seem to be woefully lacking). And best of all, if you shop carefully and don't love the sound of the Magnepans you will have the ability to flip them back on Audiogon to another member for darn near what you paid for them!

In regard to your question about your equipment, it will sound a bit dry and/or sterile, less expansive and a little hard (especially throughout the upper registers) without nearly as much "air" or "bloom" in the midrange and soundstage regions as current rate equipment comparably. This is why I suggested the Magnepans. Speakers like this which radiate from both the front and rear (called "dipolar") will always add "bloom", "air" and a sense of space (due to their rear out of phase additional sounds coming from the rear of the speaker) really helps compensate for some lacking sonic attributes of lesser (read older) electronics - particularly solid state.