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.

dpal

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Thanks everyone for the response. Lots of great info here. I have reached out to MBL to organize a demo & am also going to check-out Ohm speakers next week. I hadn’t thought about adding sub-woofers. Question, if I were to add 4 sub-woofers, how would that work? Is there a pre-amp that could handle 4 sub-woofers?
Thanks for all the responses. Some really good information here. To answer some of the questions, my main goal is to ideally have a speaker system that works across most of the living room, specially the 2 sitting areas. Ideally it will sound great in the kitchen while I am cooking, as well as both sitting areas. 

On what music do I listen too, its mostly latin music (salsa etc) & old rock (the beatles, elton john, david bowie etc). I mostly listen to digital recordings.

On which speakers do I like, I currently have 2 other listening rooms (in different apartments). One has B&W 805d2 & the other Sonus Faber Olympica 3's. I used to like the B&W but have grown tired of them, I prefer the musicality of the Olympicas. I am planning on replacing the 805d2's with Focal Diablo Utopias. The big difference is both of this room's are audio rooms, with a specific listening position that honestly is very narrow. For the new living room I was hoping I could use a different kind of speaker to make the listening positions wider - thus I thought omni-directional speakers would work best. 

I could buy a pair of Focal Maestros' which I really love, but they have a narrow listening field. 

On which amp's, cables etc. I have bought nothing yet. My plan is likely buy the same brand as the speakers manufacturer for amp's etc, or just buy McIntosh which I really like.


Thanks all. Adding Magico M6's & Alta Audio Hesta's to my listening array.

@glupson the apartment is a loft in Soho, Manhattan. With that said, if anyone recommends I speak with someone in the area that can help with the project that would be helpful.

On room treatment plans, I plan to use some bass traps in the ceiling corners, but I am also open to doing more but I do want to make sure the aesthetics are preserved - its a living room at the end, not a dedicated studio.