Room size and floor standing speakers

My room is much smaller than yours (11x13x8) and I have a pair of 9 cu.ft. cabinets. They are nearfield studio monitors (Altec 604s) and to me they sound excellent. Very dynamic and great imaging. I am sure they wouldn't be for everyone and probably not what you are considering. But they are large and they are in a small room and I am very happy.

Thansk for the responses folks. I am considering some B &W's or something from the Focal utopia be line. obviously not the Grands, but maybe the Altos or novas. Should work ok right?

Cheers,
Peter

Peter,

My room is 11'3" x 23 with my system setup on the long wall. Sitting nearfield I feel is the way to go. View my system pics and you will see. It has challenges yes but IMHO a sweet little system.

Good Luck.

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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