Proac Speakers

sam

with your description if it were me i would err on k6 side

can always move speakers lil closer to wall or corners get a touch more bass support if needed

harder to dial down too much bass or boominess

good luck have fun

i have the d30r, among other proacs... this model has bottom firing port as well, yes placement is easier than other models with front or rear ports

never had k series sorry

two points

1) with stu tyler and proacs, one mainly needs to understand that bigger models are for bigger rooms, more bass output, more absolute spl capability - so the trick is to get the RIGHT speaker for your room, not the highest speaker in line that you can afford - stu’s higher dual woofer models will absolutely overload a room that is too small for them

2) from his marketing verbiage, it seems he is trying for an even higher level of transparency in the k series... having proacs since the 1990’s i would never say that his regular speakers, the curren td series etc etc are artificially warm or with any extra romantic coloration -- in fact i would say that among the british boxed speaker makers, proacs already among the most ’see through’ in sound character (equalled only by atc perhaps) ... so i am curious to know how far stuart is going with the k series...

sam

my honest answer is i don’t really know, as i have not heard the k series, and also i don’t know how you like the tonality (specifically bass heaviness/impact) of your system - some folks really like bass!!

your room is plenty big, so either k6 or k8 shd work fine and not overload, also depends what you drive them with tubes or solid state... i would say, and can say though, that my d30r has, by my ears, a very solid low end in my 16x18 room, and i think stuart is clearly programming in a very solid bass foundation in his modern floorstanders... much more so than his earlier ones like response 3 or 3.5 which were clearly bass light despite the dual woofer design (the notable shift occurred with the r3.8 - responding to complaints about weak bass, he traded a few pts of efficiency and the friendly 8 ohm impedance for more solid fuller bass response)

ps - mijostyn’s point is a valid one... sats and subs can be a very very good sounding solution for proacs... but just depends if you want to go floor standers for sonic, aesthetic or simplicity reasons vs high performance sub/sats