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Just moved and have a smaller audio room 10.5 x 15

I just moved into a new home and my audio room is 10.5 feet wide by 15 feet long with a 7 foot opening behind the seating area thats at the other end of the 15 foot length.

I currently have Spendor SP1/2e with a PASS X250 amp and like it. But having sold my B&W 801's I have some extra money to try something different.

I'm looking at
Quad ESL -63
Magnepan mg1.6 (I owned and liked the 3.6)
Gallo Ref 3.1
Montana SP2 signature
Von Schwe VR4-jr
Usher BE-718
Vandersteen 2ce signatures (Owned the older 2ci and liked them)
Audio physics Virgo III (Owned them before and thought they had the best and smoothest top end of all my past speakers)

Listening is 90% clasic rock and blues (4 piece bands) no head bangin

Thanks for any thoughts or sugestions
fin1bxn
tpsonic
1,092 posts
 
Gallos-just my vote.
fpeel
455 posts
 
My room is the same as Finlbxn describes down to the open space behind the listening position. A pair of Merlin TSMs with a REL sub setup on the short wall (out of necessity) are working very well in this space. The Merlins by themselves sound great; the REL just makes everything that much better.
branislav
405 posts
 
Gallo's...they have big sweet spot and you can sit closer to them than with most of the speakers out there...
sounds_real_audio
1,013 posts
 
Should be a no brainer. Go with the Quads. You can always sell them for what you paid for them if you don't like them. Of course with the Quads you will probably end up looking at nice tube amplifiers to drive them. You know one thing leads to another...
grimace
624 posts
 
the VR-4s are too big for your room. If you were happy with your SP1/2s might you consider a different Spendor like the S8e? Darned good speaker.
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