Speakers for odd room. Please help


Should I buy speakers or bite the bullet and spend more money for better electronic?
I have small bedroom 9’ by 11’ with small niche in the right corner 3’ by 2’ dip along the short wall occupied by equipment rack with TV. Ceiling is 8’ and the floor is carpeted. Along an other short wall located bed and bookshelf and next to long wall desk (should be removed? – I could do it)
I got Bryston B60 with SH HD600 headphones, JBL S310 speakers (ok for TV), Pioneer DVD- ART DIO with mods and DIY cables.
I listen only at low or moderate level variety of music with no real preferences – still a new be at high end.
I’m able to put speakers only along the short wall next to equipment rack.
Is this possible to get good results with speakers in my conditions? Or I stuck with headphones only?
If it possible please share not only good but also negative experience. I don’t care about size but prefer floorstanding speakers.
I tried to provide as much as possible information. I hope you will be able to help me.
vlad

Showing 1 response by rar1

Sounds like my old bedroom in Astoria (10X10.5X8.5) ...
what I did in that room was the following:
centered the bed against the long back wall; used a low boy type bookcase (30X36X12) as a nightstand, along the left adjoining wall; used a high boy style bookcase in the small niche area (60X30X16) and this bookcase housed the stereo equipment. Equipment: refurbished Marantz 2216B receiver ($95 on eBay; another $150 to bring back to spec); a Yamaha 393 CD player ($100 from J&R; and OPTIMUS PRO LX5 speakers, which were placed on top of the high boy bookcase (roughly 10" separating the speakers). The system was fun ... rich, warm, and musical sounding (I essentially re-created an old Grunding type post war mono console). The Optimus speakers were the key and I attribute that to the omni-directional nature of the top mounted tweeter assembly. Any other small speakers that I tried (B&W 302; Polk; NHT Super 0's) just did not sound good at all.