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Need Speakers at least 4 feet high

Very disturbing what wives can do - first it was move them closer to the wall - did so, at significant cost of soundstaging and imaging - next, I come home and there is that huge, upholstered chair that she is crazy about, the size of the Whire House, completely obscuring the speaker! "What's the problem"? She asks, get higher speakers, then!!" So, I need your help. To do just that. I cant even see the right speaker now. The house-sized chair is planted right in front of the right speaker! Her revenge.
Budget - about $10-12K, must have coherence of Kharma 3.2 Enigmas, which they will replace. (And which some lucky soul with a kinder wife can buy:) Must image 2 ft from front wall, 8 ft apart, room size, 23' X 16 ft X high A type ceiling. System: EMM CDSD/DCC2, Sota Cosmos V, EAR 324, AS MP-1, AS MA 2.2,(200 WPC, Class A, OTL - likes 8 ohm inpedance) PAD Dominus S/C.
This is a serious request of y'all, so please, despite your suggestions of dumping the chair and the wife, let me know if there are any speakers out there that I should look at.
Thanks.
springbok10
dan_ed
2,451 posts
 
Springbok10, while I agree CleanedUp went over the line it was you who brought up the wife and in a somewhat disparaging way. So don't get too bent up about some of the comments since you started the discussion and brought in the non-audio parts yourself. Not to worry. This thread isn't so heated as you may think.

This is what I think you heard from your wife. "Blah, blah, blah, new speakers, blah, blah." That's what you seem to have keyed in on, "I must buy new speakers". Several have offered you good advice, but I still suspect from your comments that you just want new speakers. Well that's fine. Either way you are never, ever going to get any speaker to sound right with a chair sitting in front of it no matter how tall they are. It is a completely non-audio arrangement. All you are doing is helping the wife redecorate.
springbok10 OP
711 posts
 
Dan_ed, I tried to inject some humor, as well as explain why I needed 4 ft high speakers. If I just posted "Help me find 4 ft high speakers", do you not think every post would ask why? Like maybe "Are you 4 ft tall?" :) Maybe it's cultural; good-natured disparaging of wives and self is not a bad thing if the wife thinks it's funny (mine does) - but it is not an invitation for pompous, serious, unsolicited marital advice. I'm not at all bent out of shape, but name-calling exceeds the boundaries of the usual comaraderie and self-deprecating (which this was)dialogue that I usually associate with Audiogon. I don't want new speakers and will try 6" platforms. But thanks for the comments.
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driver
750 posts
 
Although I don't need to clear 4', I had to clear the 26" arm of the sofa & did this w/a driver that starts 31" from the floor. Any part of the driver that is below your 4' height will compromise the sound. The spkr sits only 14" from the sofa.

I think a custom made spkr would fit the bill or move the furniture when listening, as has been suggested.

For custom made spkrs, I like this guy:
Fritz

If you want to play the size game, pick up a pair of Montana spkrs. They really are excellent sounding & you could get one of the bigger models in your budget range.

Good luck.
puerto
372 posts
 
Yea, but the marriage counselling is more fun to read and a lot of laughs . . . I agree with whoever said to move to the man cave and give her back the she cave. I just got WAF on a pair of Maggie 20.1s so I'm happy!
gsm18439
895 posts
 
Zu speakers are 4'+ tall. I think that the Druids are over 50".
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