Joseph Audio Pulsars with REL Sub or Perspectives in 11x11 Room?

moto man,


I own the Perspectives, using them in a 13 x 15 room.  They work great in the room, but they do put out plenty of bass.  It's well controlled in my room, but then it's a good room acoustically and also has a wide opening to a hallway.   Hard to predict for your room, but if you have good room for adjusting seating and speaker positions I can see them working there (that is having the Perspectives well off the walls).


In some ways the Pulsars with subs would be "easier" to get the bass right...but that depends on how much work and fussiness you are good with.   It's work and fidgiting to dial in subs really well, and it's extra speakers, extra cables, extra AC connections, extra aesthetics.


I actually have subs too but haven't used them because of all that and because the Perspectives do such deep satisfying bass.

moto man,
My perspectives tend to be about 3 3/4 feet from the back of the speaker to the wall behind them.   Left speaker about 2 feet off the side wall, the other speaker near a room opening.
I haven't played with the speakers much closer to the back wall because I have a bit of an unusual room demands that forbids such placement as permanent (the right speaker is near the room entrance and placing the speaker closer to it's back wall actually puts it in the pathway of entering the room.  In this case this "limitation" works out fine as most speakers work really well in the room at that distance from the  walls.

If it weren't for the current pandemic apocalypse (and hence lack of work) I'd have upgraded my Perspectives to the Graphene version by now. 


Ah well, lucky to have first-world problems.

For now I switch back and forth between my Thiel 2.7s and the Perspectives, enjoying both.