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Speaker and amp advice needed

Thanks in advance for any advice.  Love great sound, but far from an expert.  Current set up is in an 18x21 foot room.  The ceiling is 8 feet tall.  I sit toward the back of the 18.  It is set up that way because of a beam that runs along the ceiling and only way the home theater will work.  I have Sonus Faber Olympica bookshelf speakers than I use with an Anthem amp that runs the home theater, and a roon and Moon streaming device.  The rest of the room is Sonus Faber as well, and I also have a Sonus Faber sub.  I would like to upgrade the two channel sound.

Was wondering a couple of things:

Is the room, especially the ceiling height too small for a large speaker like a Sonus Faber Amati Tradition (which I would get used)?  Or, would I be better going with better bookshelfs, such as the Guerneri, or the Focal Utopia, or something like that?  Also, was thinking about getting a Mcintosh amp, such as the MA352 since I like warm sound.  

Thanks for reading, and any thoughts would be helpful.  I tend to drive myself crazy overthinking things and never get anything accomplished because I over analyze.  I listen to mostly vocals, and really love female vocals.  But, also enjoy most other music other than rap and heavy metal (which I don't listen to in the listening room).

Thanks

Jonathan

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Thank you all who responded.  My room has walls on all four sides, and I usually sit about 2 feet out from the rear wall.  The speakers are about two feet out from the wall where the screen is in the front.

I appreciate the comments.  One thing I have learned over the years is that if I search for the "best" I will drive myself crazy, and it will take me forever to make a decision.  I do that when I buy cars.  In the meantime, you lose the time you could have been enjoying something that is 99% as good.  

So, given the advice above, it sounds like I should stick with the Sonus Faber line, and simply upgrade the speakers, look into room conditioning, and Audio Research as a possible amp.  Now that is about the number of decision points I can handle!  :)

Thank you all for your comments.  Really appreciate it.

Jonathan

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