Looking for a great front ported bookshelp speaker recommendation


Hi everyone,

After about a 15 year hiatus from hifi, I'm looking to get back into it. I'm looking for a front ported bookshelf speaker. The reason is that it's going to go inside a cabinet and right against a back wall. My budget is up to $5,000 but the less, the better:) Any advice or guidance would be appreciated.

TIA

blackiridium

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Thanks, the ATCs seem nice.

Other brands I was considering were Triangle Audio and possibly a Focal model.

Please keep the rec's coming.

Unfortunately there's no other solution to the positioning. It's either deal with it or not add speakers.

So The room is a problem, It’s extremely large. It measures something like 21 feet wide by 30 feet long with an open floorplan to the kitchen behind it and the entranceway to the side And on top of it, the ceilings are very high at like 15 feet or so

So far my top contenders are:

Proac D2R

ATC SCM20PSL (bass seems very limited on this speaker)

I've also seen a transmission line speaker called the Kerr K300 that could work although it's a bit outside of budget and there doesn't appear to be too much information on this speaker.

The JBL wouldn't work unfortunately as I have a max width I can accomodate of 10.5".
So the ATC and Proac models wouldn't be loud enough?