Since space is at a premium for you, I'd give Miklorsmith's suggest of Zu Druids serious consideration. They are the most compact floorstander (depthwise) I have ever seen - ~8" deep. And the company allows 60 day in-home trials with a full money-back guarantee.
I know from personal experience that the Druids do rock & roll extremely well at high volume without breaking up, perhaps they do equally with orchestral and choral. The only drawback, with all "single-driver's" including mine, are that I feel suwoofers are absolutely necessary to get proper tonal fullness. But, they do allow greater fredom of placement within a busy room.
Sadly, the only systems that I have ever heard to recreate full orchestra and choral with a true sense of scale and realism are 3-way or 4-way true compression horn speakers, properly configured. And these systems are BIG.
Mainly, I'm talking about the ability to go from the softest passages to the fullest in one swirling, dynamicly fantastic, sweep without loosing focus of the individual instruments/voices within the massed music.
Dr. Bruce Edgar's Edgarhorn shop is 10 mintes from my house - his stuff does scale. Of course, the Edgarhorns + Seismic sub are like putting 3 refrigerators in your living room. The Seismic is actually closer to a Sub-Zero double-door frig/freezer.
Eso on AA has a home-built 4-way system that does dynamic swings of full orchestra that are so real I got goosebumps. But, his bass horn alone is built into the room with a horn throat/length of 16-18 feet(?). I think he used hundreds and hundreds of pound of plaster or concrete to build it.
Cogents new field coil system does an amazing job of scale with unbelievable ease, but that's not even available yet and will cost ya' ~$20-30k when it's done.
I know from personal experience that the Druids do rock & roll extremely well at high volume without breaking up, perhaps they do equally with orchestral and choral. The only drawback, with all "single-driver's" including mine, are that I feel suwoofers are absolutely necessary to get proper tonal fullness. But, they do allow greater fredom of placement within a busy room.
Sadly, the only systems that I have ever heard to recreate full orchestra and choral with a true sense of scale and realism are 3-way or 4-way true compression horn speakers, properly configured. And these systems are BIG.
Mainly, I'm talking about the ability to go from the softest passages to the fullest in one swirling, dynamicly fantastic, sweep without loosing focus of the individual instruments/voices within the massed music.
Dr. Bruce Edgar's Edgarhorn shop is 10 mintes from my house - his stuff does scale. Of course, the Edgarhorns + Seismic sub are like putting 3 refrigerators in your living room. The Seismic is actually closer to a Sub-Zero double-door frig/freezer.
Eso on AA has a home-built 4-way system that does dynamic swings of full orchestra that are so real I got goosebumps. But, his bass horn alone is built into the room with a horn throat/length of 16-18 feet(?). I think he used hundreds and hundreds of pound of plaster or concrete to build it.
Cogents new field coil system does an amazing job of scale with unbelievable ease, but that's not even available yet and will cost ya' ~$20-30k when it's done.