Recommend speakers for a large living room

Just seems to me that if you need to add a sub woofer to your speaker set up, it isn't a good set of speakers set to a good sound system.  I know and have heard what a sub woofer can do, but I would rather have a good system with great speakers that do the trick and not have another box on the floor.

MBL 

A couple of negative wisecrack responses that started the answers. That attitude is not helpful imo.

I would suggest auditioning Magicos. The S7 perhaps. I can vouch for the S3 sounding absolutely amazing and being able to fill a very large room with huge dynamic sound. I’ve not heard the S7, but they have to be the same incredible performance just bigger sound and more bass?

If it is not a secret, where do they make one-bedroom apartments with such a large living room? It is quite impressive. Some remodeled loft?

You have an interesting challenge ahead of you. That’s a larger room but that’s not the main challenge. The dinning area and living room area should have good sound quality if you place the speakers in the areas marked by the red circles. The sitting area to the side of the speakers will likely have several compromises. Maybe some sort of speaker trickery will help but I don’t know. How is the seating arranged in the sitting area? Any room treatment in the plans? Bass will not be an issue. Having enough output will be important. I suggest considering high sensitivity speakers with decent power handling capacity for high SPLs. Not so you can play loud but so dynamic peaks are reproduced. Many good speakers suffer from dynamic compression in the mid frequencies. They will get lost in a large room. I also suggest considering a line source design either OB or closed cabinet. Line source speakers attenuate less per distance than point source speakers do so more SPL will be available in your kitchen. They also have minimal floor and ceiling interaction. I suggest looking into DSP with room correction as well. Room correction will help integrate your new speakers with the room. I haven’t tried this but it’s possible to optimize for two locations and switch from one to the other depending on where you are. The space in front of the speakers should be fine. The room correction might work better than expected for the side space.