The advantage of a “smaller” system is that it can be higher quality components because less power and smaller speakers can be involved. We can talk about this more. But I would look at some really high quality stand mounted speakers… like Sonus Faber Olympica, and an Audio Reseach Vsi75 integrated amp. The Aurender N10 is great. You could go for a small subwoofer later.
Anyway, the point is carefully chosen and appropriately scaled and you can have a simply stunning system. The problem can be trying to put “big and powerful” stuff in an inappropriate setting. You want higher quality / appropriate sized equipment.
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