Small room electrostat/ planar speaker?


In about 30 days will be moving to a new home where its going to be hard to make my 1.7 maggies work in a spouse friendly way ( the only large room is the main living room). I've always gravitated to planars and electrostatics, box speakers that don't sound colored or slow usually cost more than my entire system. Where I'd like to end up is a system that's extremely resolving at low to moderate volume levels, my main dissatisfaction with my current Mg 1.7 speakers and Prima Luna amp is that it really doesn't come to life until the volume is moderate listening levels or higher.

I'm wondering if anyone has seen something that approaches the coherency and speed of the 1.7s that would work in an 11x12 listening room? I'd like to keep the cost limited to $4k if possible.
davide256

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I have a small man cave room with Manley equipment and rega RP8. I have a pr of Quads Unlimited restored esl57's and they worked excellent in my room. They can be close to the side walls (about 8") you don't have to worry about protection and the bass is more than enough. I have played them 80 - 90 db all day long. The room is only 10x11

I've had them hooked up to my PASS X250.5 in my big living room and now use a 100 watt mono blocks Manley Snappers

Because I wanted a change I bought a pr of ATC SCM19v2's that I love. They give me the transparency of the Quads with Bass Impact when pushed.