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This is what I had, and was quite happy with it, but, I know I can do better.

NAD C320BEE amp
NAD C440 tuner
NAD C542 CD player
PSB Image 2B speakers

I sold all my stereo equipment, and a lot of other stuff, to build a woodshop. Now I'm gonna work on the stereo. I've got a room problem that you guys might be able to help with. It's 9'X11' with one side(length) taken up by a bed. On one end is a desk and TV stand that takes up all 9'. Because of the small room with desk and bed, I've got the speakers up about 4.5' on a 9' wide wall. The speakers will have to back-up to the wall. Like I said before, I was quite happy listening to music with my other set-up, with the exception, and this is a biggy for me, large combined orchestra and choral pieces.

Do you have suggestions for speakers that would be against a wall, 4.5' up on a wall that will handle combined orch/choral music. I'd like to do this without a sub. I've got some pretty good sound with the subs I've tried, but I've always had to tweak them for different types of music. As you can probably tell by my previous set-up, I don't really like tinkering.

I'm going to start with speakers, but suggestions for amp and CD player would also be appreciated. Budget for everything - speakers, amp, tuner and CD - would be around $6-8,000.

Thanks for any help.

John
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I would normally steer people in this situation toward Totem Arro's. But you say that you want orchestral music without a sub, and that's pushing it for the Arro's (although the bass is much better than you would expect from looking at them).

So I would probably opt for monitors in this situationl. Maybe JMLab Electra monitors, powered by either a good solid state integrated (Plinius 8200, classe CAP-151, etc) or maybe a solid state preamp and tube amp such as Cary V12. Lots of choices here.

Michael
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