Hi Brian,
I am a little confused about your room being 23 square feet, do you mean 230? If so, that is a little bigger than my room.
I have been listening to my new 2805's for about 100 hours now and they sound fantastic! They are the best speaker I have ever owned, although I have owned more expensive over the years.
My room is 13' X 16' X 9' ceiling. I have them set up along the long wall, about 5' out. They are 10' apart measured from the center of the speakers. My listening seat is 9' from ear to the center of each speaker and my chair is about 1' from the back wall. I have diffusion behind each speaker (plants and louvered/curtained windows) and absorption behind my listening chair. The speakers are toed in so that they would intersect about 3 feet behind my listening seat.
This set-up seems ideal. Bass is very good, smooth and as full and tight as previous dynamic driver speakers I have owned. Imaging and soundstaging is world class, better than my AP Virgo's and Libras. The resolution and transparency is like nothing I have heard before.
I am using an EL34 based Rogue Cronus integrated, which has been highly modified by Mark O'Brien at Rogue with upgraded parts, wiring, simplified circuits, etc. It is 30 wpc in triode, and sounds really good. From what I have read, the EL34 is a great tube to use with Quads and 30 wpc is plenty of power in my room. I have an EL84 based Scott 222, but have not tried it yet, nor have I tried any solid state yet.
You will also notice that with the Quads, you will probably listen at lower levels than other speakers because you do not need to turn them up as loud to hear all the detail. To me, they sound "louder" at my typical 80db listening level than any previous speaker I have owned.
I would definitely ask for the home demo. If you can get them set up reasonably well, you won't be returning them! Good luck and keep up posted on your experience.
Dave
I am a little confused about your room being 23 square feet, do you mean 230? If so, that is a little bigger than my room.
I have been listening to my new 2805's for about 100 hours now and they sound fantastic! They are the best speaker I have ever owned, although I have owned more expensive over the years.
My room is 13' X 16' X 9' ceiling. I have them set up along the long wall, about 5' out. They are 10' apart measured from the center of the speakers. My listening seat is 9' from ear to the center of each speaker and my chair is about 1' from the back wall. I have diffusion behind each speaker (plants and louvered/curtained windows) and absorption behind my listening chair. The speakers are toed in so that they would intersect about 3 feet behind my listening seat.
This set-up seems ideal. Bass is very good, smooth and as full and tight as previous dynamic driver speakers I have owned. Imaging and soundstaging is world class, better than my AP Virgo's and Libras. The resolution and transparency is like nothing I have heard before.
I am using an EL34 based Rogue Cronus integrated, which has been highly modified by Mark O'Brien at Rogue with upgraded parts, wiring, simplified circuits, etc. It is 30 wpc in triode, and sounds really good. From what I have read, the EL34 is a great tube to use with Quads and 30 wpc is plenty of power in my room. I have an EL84 based Scott 222, but have not tried it yet, nor have I tried any solid state yet.
You will also notice that with the Quads, you will probably listen at lower levels than other speakers because you do not need to turn them up as loud to hear all the detail. To me, they sound "louder" at my typical 80db listening level than any previous speaker I have owned.
I would definitely ask for the home demo. If you can get them set up reasonably well, you won't be returning them! Good luck and keep up posted on your experience.
Dave