Cost no Object but Small Room

Here's another way to go. Get a dedicated headphone amp,and the best earphones and you will have sound that's better than any speaker you can put in that room. Check out Headroom.com for great advice. If you want music without headphones, almost any speaker will do, but your serious listen will be with your headphones. If you never heard top notch earphone sound, you should give it a listen. You will be mighty impressed.

OOPS - The web site for headphones is Headphones.com - the place is Headroom. Sorry

Thanks to all. Forgot to mention I listen to a wide variety, rock, all jazz including fusion, blues, and bit of classical. Volume wise, quiet but enuff to fill the room, to loud but never ear splitting, rock concert levels.

Wslam: thans for the offer and will definitely will follow up w/ u.

OverKill: thanks for taking the time...
1. re cross overs, digital cross over if I am not mistaken takes place only in the PCM domain? If DSD, doesn't it lead to conversion to first PCM? If so, then I am a bit hesitant as my front end converts the other way and going
back & forth is something to avoid.
2. Cant pull out by 3 m unfortunatelyas if I did then distance to the listening postion would be about 5.5 feet..
3. DIY: I can see that, but not for me.

Audiokinesis: agree, that was what i feared and found logical, ...thus Mbls are probably out.

Do have headphone amp/USB DAC benchmark connected to my PC, and I use it when its very late at nght and I do not want to disturb others, via AKG 701s. By the way, a small system consisting of the the above sans the PC but instead the MSB modified IPOD which outputs digitally. This is a very portable at least in terms within the house (perhaps a bit too much for travel though) with suprisingly good sound.

Definitely check out the Dynaudio Confidence C1 and its kin. They sounded incredible at HE2007. If they sound that great in a hotel room, I bet they sound even better in a home environment. The only thing I thought sounded better was the Wilson W/P 8.

Good luck.

In my opinion a small room calls for speakers with a well-controlled radiation pattern and/or smooth power response, as inevitably the bulk of the reverberant energy will arrive earlier than in a larger room.

ATC SCM 20's are quite nice in that sized envornment but so are many other good near fields. The Confidence C1 was another good suggestion. (If you like a dynamic sound)