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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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erik_squires
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If you are running a HT you usually have room correction, so you shouldn’t have to worry about the speakers being too big, in terms of having too much bass.

With a simple room like that, check out AM Acoustics room mode simulator. Put in your room dimensions and it will help you not only visualize the room modes, but also help you keep your speakers and listening room away from the lowest modes.

My suspicion is you’ll have a few very strong modes in the lower 2 octaves and bass traps like GIK Soffit traps will really help cut and smooth that out.

The height of the room is rather small, so consider abosrbers in the ceiling between listener and speaker and/or below the beam you mention.

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