Speaker choice without need for deep bass

I also have a very large room (26 x 16 x 8).  Across the front I utilize the HSU CCB-8 which is a concentric bookshelf speaker (tweeter imbedded into an 8" woofer).  I also run a Buckeye Hypex NCx500 class D amp across the front stage, 2 SVS 3000 sealed woofers, Kef Q150's as the rear surrounds, and an SVS Ultra Surround as the back surround.    

Goven your price range, The CCB-8's only run around $400 each and they deliver great detail and offer a very nice soundstage. The bass goes down to around 50 Hz.   In my setup, (7,2.2) these sound very good and help fill my large room with sound.    I run dual subs which help a lot, and the Buckeye Amp was a recent addition; it brings out a lot of additional dynamics across the front stage.

Good luck in your quest for a relatively inexpensive bookshelf speaker for a large room.      

@kraftwerkturbo Wrote:

Speaker choice without need for deep bass

Maybe a pair of JBL 4612-OK, no bass below 50Hz see here. 

Mike

Very few speakers are designed and manufactured with cost no object in mind.

Revel ultimate gem 1’s where designed right after Samsung bought Harman industry. They developed those speakers with the idea of buying into the upper echelons of hifi market place.

Read what someone familiar with the development of those speakers said;

“What I was thinking about was how in the first generation Ultima speakers Harman Industries was all in to establish the Revel brand so controlling manufacturing cost, and profits, were no object. While most high-end audio speakers brands are minimally funded and attempt to pull themselves up by the bootstraps that was a rare instance of top management at a billion dollar corporation hiring one of the best designers in the industry and giving him a blank check. As was said back then Revel hit the market with “shock and awe” buying a place immediately in the first rank. Once the brand was established I watched as 2nd and later generation models were cost engineered for greater profit. In instances like that it is good to get the benefit of those deep pockets buying market share with a line of over engineered over build models.”

@erik_squires *G* Well, it's always nice to have overhead to spare...but pounding self into a happy 'phile of jell-o at 1st Song....
Of course, there's that 'get re-acquainted period' as you get into the new staging...
...and all that fiddle dance with wiring, toe go/no go's, too much fun in the summer time... 😏🙄
Indoors....*mock tsk*  Sounds like self-incarceration after another dream scheme...

We'll all be jealous...live stream the set-up and all of us 'out here' can suggest A>Z back....as always when the peanut gallery gets rowdy.... ;)

...I'm good at suggestions, too....but know better not to tread too deeply....or interrupt too often... ;)