Room size and floor standing speakers

Maria:

My room is 21*13*7 and have had floorstanders with great success...set up on the short wall and speakers way into the room if they like to be such as Avalon. You may want to keep the floorstander rather slim, tight bass, may be a 2.5 way with woofers smaller than 8" but you can have full range for sure...Utopia Diva may be an option but at this price range, you have plenty of choice Avalon Ascendent II, Audio Physic you name it, Living Voice OBX, Merlin VSM top of the line, etc, etc. You may not need huge amplification, a bonus.

Mariasplunge, you're gonna buy what you want, and I know the marketing machine for B&W speakers is a steamroller, but there are lots of better speakers for the money. I have heard more than my fair share of their speakers and have never heard one I wanted buy...

Just do your homework. If you do, and B&W is the winner, then buy them. BUT don't buy them based on some kind of reputation.

JMNSHO...

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I have a pair of Klipschorns with a Lascala center in a room smaller than yours:17x13x8. It sounds great, but my secret is iso-wall-damping material from ASC. You also have the advantage of having room dimensions that meet the 1.6:1 "golden ratio" requirements that greatly reduce standing sound wave modes. With an 8 foot ceiling, your ideal room dimensions should be 8 x 12.8 x 20.48 feet. Check out this topic in Robert Harley's "The Complete Guide To High-End Audio"

Redwood. Thanks for the response. That is fanatastic. Now i wonder it that recommendation is based on putting the speakers on the short wall or long. I only have theoption of the long, as that is my room set up.

On the subject of the B&W's, yes it does seem they have a marketing machine. I honestly love the jm labs sound and will, money permitting, focus on some speaker from their utopia line. Either the L&R monitors or their full-blown alto or diva.

Thanks for everyones help.

Cheers,
Peter

I have heard several JM Labs speakers and was pleasantly surprised. They will offer much more speaker for the money...

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