Large listening room

Never claimed to be a genius...
Just occured to me that the cheapest solution would be to buy a chair that could be moved into a corner during regular life and then brought into the middle of the room for listening sessions...
Cheaper than floorstanding speakers or a seperate system in another smaller room.
Not nearly as much fun though. Im gonna pull a chair up there tonight and try it out.
THX!

My Soliloquys fill a similar size just fine. Instead of moving the chair, I move the speakers when the kids aren't around. I found my ideal set-up and just move them back 4 feet to the wall when not doing serious listening...

If you aren't playing loud you will probably find they sound really great except a bit anemic in the lower octaves. You can augment them with a subwoofer--but it has to be a really good sub and great crossover/amp to get good integration. When you get really good integration there it can be really fabulous. Many people try to add a sub and figure--well I'll start on the inexpensive side and if I like it I can upgrade later. They try it--it sounds horrible because the lower quality sub just can't integrate properly with a pair of high quality monitors. So they figure--well it doesn't sound better I'll just get rid of the sub and not try that again. If you do it, you have to do it right or it will in fact sound worse than with no sub.

I am using a sub and like the integration that I am getting. I feel like I am losing detail being so far away from the speakers.
I liek the idea of keeping the couch where i tis and moving the speakers for listening. Even if the stands are heavy. It would allow for a lot of space behind the speakers which seems to help them with soundstage depth.
Gonna try that and bringing a chair into the room too.

Years ago I had my system in a room of similar dimensions. The sound was always flat and uninvolving when I sat on the couch on the opposite wall. I did exactly as you are planning with a portable chair. made all the difference in the world.
After that experience I am a convert to nearfield (6 to 8 ft) listening. Let us know your impressions after the trial.