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Need Speakers at least 4 feet high

Very disturbing what wives can do - first it was move them closer to the wall - did so, at significant cost of soundstaging and imaging - next, I come home and there is that huge, upholstered chair that she is crazy about, the size of the Whire House, completely obscuring the speaker! "What's the problem"? She asks, get higher speakers, then!!" So, I need your help. To do just that. I cant even see the right speaker now. The house-sized chair is planted right in front of the right speaker! Her revenge.
Budget - about $10-12K, must have coherence of Kharma 3.2 Enigmas, which they will replace. (And which some lucky soul with a kinder wife can buy:) Must image 2 ft from front wall, 8 ft apart, room size, 23' X 16 ft X high A type ceiling. System: EMM CDSD/DCC2, Sota Cosmos V, EAR 324, AS MP-1, AS MA 2.2,(200 WPC, Class A, OTL - likes 8 ohm inpedance) PAD Dominus S/C.
This is a serious request of y'all, so please, despite your suggestions of dumping the chair and the wife, let me know if there are any speakers out there that I should look at.
Thanks.
springbok10

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dan_ed
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That chair must have a high back. You might find some 4' high but then you may have to get used to listening while standing up. With the chair and other restrictions on placement you're going to have to compromise on sound.

How about moving the system to another room? That's probably too simple. ;-)
dan_ed
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You don't need new speakers. You need a marriage counselor! :-)

With 3 other systems I think you should re-consider. 200 lbs. is not that much. Get some friends or hire some movers. Let your wife have her space. It is every bit as important to her as it is to us to have that space for our equipment.

Good luck!
dan_ed
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Springbok10, while I agree CleanedUp went over the line it was you who brought up the wife and in a somewhat disparaging way. So don't get too bent up about some of the comments since you started the discussion and brought in the non-audio parts yourself. Not to worry. This thread isn't so heated as you may think.

This is what I think you heard from your wife. "Blah, blah, blah, new speakers, blah, blah." That's what you seem to have keyed in on, "I must buy new speakers". Several have offered you good advice, but I still suspect from your comments that you just want new speakers. Well that's fine. Either way you are never, ever going to get any speaker to sound right with a chair sitting in front of it no matter how tall they are. It is a completely non-audio arrangement. All you are doing is helping the wife redecorate.
dan_ed
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Yes, I agree it's not always easy to get full meaning across with written posts.
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