small speakers for small room

I've done a lot of playing around with small speakers in the last couple of years, because my wife insisted on having an entertainment center, which limited my speaker choices to those under 13" tall and they were being place on shelves.

I've had good luck with System Audio SA-505s, Peachtree D5s, B&W 685s (tight squeeze for me), and Minuets. In the end, I settled on Paradigm Studio 10s. They were all good. It came down to more of a matter of taste for me.

I didn't look into anything by Harbeth or Spendor because I couldn't justify the expense for the application.

You may also want to check out the LSA .5s.

Ok before I said my was 10x8. Much more like 8x8.

check out the system audio web page and check out the Mantra 10. Check out the specs

dimensions (WxHxD) cm: 14.5 x 38 x 26
recommended amplifier: min. 50 Watts
recommended placement: by wall, on shelf, in bookcase, on speaker stand
design principle: 2 way bass reflex

They sound good close to the wall. The are only 14.5 wide. You get two drivers. They also sound awesome at low volume and high volume given space. If you ever expect to move the speakers out of the small room I would get something that could move to a bigger room and more powerful amp in the future.

They might be to long for you but may give a look.

Those Silverline are said to be great. I wish I could hear then. If this is second system or will always be in a smaller room I would seek the out silverline after looking at what people say about them on the gon.

JBL Studio 530 and on sale at amazon for 479.00
Save your money for music.

For desktop use you'd be hard presses to beat a used pair of NHT M-00 powered monitors. Designed for near field use

Today I went to a shop which sells both silverline minuet and rega RS1

silverline: very dynamic, fast, excellent to play percussion, but too bright in high freq., the vocal is very clear

rega: not as fast and dynamic, but i guess given the size, it is OK, just silverline is superb. not bright, vocal and piano is warm sound. then i played vocal jazz patricia barber, rega touched me immediately while silverline cannot.

I would say minuet is an amazing tiny speakers. but i still choose rega RS1, because vocal is more important to me then dynamic or details.

thanks for the advice above, cheers