Need help with my office system


I work out of a 13'x11' home office quite a bit during the day and have an office listening system. Its a budget tube system (Jolida 302b and Totem Arro's fed buy lossless itunes through a Presonus Firebox as a Dac).

I like speakers when I am sitting at work but since I sit at a desk I am probably wasting my systems abilities.

Below is a photo of my workspace. Does anyone have any reccomendations on speaker placement/tricks? Should I just get a small pair of powered monitors and set them up on the 3rd shelves (like genelec 8020a's or 8030a's)?

http://www.shawnparslow.com/Public/office.jpg
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Showing 1 response by waltcertain

Shawnparslow, Why not purchase a small pair of Magneplanar panel speakers. You could get a floor standing model, about 4 1/2 ft high, or a pair of wall mounted speakers that swivel out from the wall. Either way, you could position them toward your desk or sit back on your couch and enjoy! The Maggies sound wonderful and are not tiring in the least, with nice 3-dimensionality, beautiful mid and upper ranges. They go down to 50 Hertz on the low end, so you might want to add a subwoofer at some point, perhaps a $700 ERA with an 8" woofer. Give a listen to them at a local dealer. You could pick up a pair on Audiogon for about $500 or even less. The floor standing model goes for $1100 new.

Have fun, waltcertain