You have an interesting challenge ahead of you. That’s a larger room but that’s not the main challenge. The dinning area and living room area should have good sound quality if you place the speakers in the areas marked by the red circles. The sitting area to the side of the speakers will likely have several compromises. Maybe some sort of speaker trickery will help but I don’t know. How is the seating arranged in the sitting area? Any room treatment in the plans? Bass will not be an issue. Having enough output will be important. I suggest considering high sensitivity speakers with decent power handling capacity for high SPLs. Not so you can play loud but so dynamic peaks are reproduced. Many good speakers suffer from dynamic compression in the mid frequencies. They will get lost in a large room. I also suggest considering a line source design either OB or closed cabinet. Line source speakers attenuate less per distance than point source speakers do so more SPL will be available in your kitchen. They also have minimal floor and ceiling interaction. I suggest looking into DSP with room correction as well. Room correction will help integrate your new speakers with the room. I haven’t tried this but it’s possible to optimize for two locations and switch from one to the other depending on where you are. The space in front of the speakers should be fine. The room correction might work better than expected for the side space.
Recommend speakers for a large living room
Hi, I am moving to a new apartment with a large living room (38" x 23", plus a dining area & kitchen). I am planning to have 2 different sitting areas given the size. Here is a picture of the floor-plan: https://ibb.co/J5szvj9
Everything is wood floors except on the blue squares where I plan to put carpet. I’ve been thinking of using omni-directional speakers (German Physiks Borderland) given the area is large and there are multiple listening locations. But I’d like to get some recommendations & also some ideas of where it would be best to place the speakers - so far my idea is to put them on the red circles.
My budget for speakers is ~$50,000.
Everything is wood floors except on the blue squares where I plan to put carpet. I’ve been thinking of using omni-directional speakers (German Physiks Borderland) given the area is large and there are multiple listening locations. But I’d like to get some recommendations & also some ideas of where it would be best to place the speakers - so far my idea is to put them on the red circles.
My budget for speakers is ~$50,000.