If you live in a small market as you indicate, you should consider speaker manufacturers who provide in-home audition. At worst, you are only out shipping fees if you decide to return them.
Time for a change. Need some Advice
We recently moved to a smaller house. I now have a dedicated listening room which has been acoustically tuned with absorption, diffusion and corner traps. My room dimensions are on the small end 11'7" x 15'6" with 8 foot ceilings.
Speakers are 6'6" from centre of each speaker. 31" from side walls and 36" from rear walls.
My head position is 8 feet back from front of speakers with 30" from my head to the rear wall.
Diffusion is on wall behind me. Absorption at first deflection points on side walls. Rear wall with additional absorption on side walls. Corners have base traps.
My room was a lot larger and my Dynaudio C4 Signatures had a lot of room to breath. With patient room tuning and adjustment they sound great in my new room at moderate listening levels. If I crank things up it can be a little more challenging. They are driven by Krell Evolution One and Two's. Source is EMM DA2, Bryston BDP-2 and cabling is Siltech. I also own a JL Fathom 112.
I have had a chance to listen to the Sonus Faber Guarneri Evolution on my last visit to Florida and liked them very much. I have also heard the Wilson Sasha 2's. Our choices are very limited where I live. Not much high-end anymore here. I have access to Sonus Faber here if I order them, also have access to Wilson Audio. The reality is I don't have much choice here if I move away from Dynaudio. I also listened to the smaller Paradigm Persona's but found them a little on the forward bright side. I wouldn't mind trying something new and may be leaning towards the Amati, Guarneri's but have to say the Wilsons sound pretty nice when driven by Krell.
I understand that in an ideal world speakers should be auditioned in your own listening environment but the reality this isn't possible in small market cities. Hence my query here.
Speakers are 6'6" from centre of each speaker. 31" from side walls and 36" from rear walls.
My head position is 8 feet back from front of speakers with 30" from my head to the rear wall.
Diffusion is on wall behind me. Absorption at first deflection points on side walls. Rear wall with additional absorption on side walls. Corners have base traps.
My room was a lot larger and my Dynaudio C4 Signatures had a lot of room to breath. With patient room tuning and adjustment they sound great in my new room at moderate listening levels. If I crank things up it can be a little more challenging. They are driven by Krell Evolution One and Two's. Source is EMM DA2, Bryston BDP-2 and cabling is Siltech. I also own a JL Fathom 112.
I have had a chance to listen to the Sonus Faber Guarneri Evolution on my last visit to Florida and liked them very much. I have also heard the Wilson Sasha 2's. Our choices are very limited where I live. Not much high-end anymore here. I have access to Sonus Faber here if I order them, also have access to Wilson Audio. The reality is I don't have much choice here if I move away from Dynaudio. I also listened to the smaller Paradigm Persona's but found them a little on the forward bright side. I wouldn't mind trying something new and may be leaning towards the Amati, Guarneri's but have to say the Wilsons sound pretty nice when driven by Krell.
I understand that in an ideal world speakers should be auditioned in your own listening environment but the reality this isn't possible in small market cities. Hence my query here.
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@ shpritz A two way sealed LS3/5A type speaker would be a nice fit for your small room and the type of music you like. Harbeth,Spendor,Stirling,etc,etc,make some fine sounding ones!! |
@shpritz - If you really just wanna spend the money then please go right ahead (and if you have a moment you could also send your C4 Sig's to me...). However, before you do you might want to pay some attention to the comments from Johnny R. True story: we re-did a bunch of things in our house a couple of years back & I now "own" the den w/ a certain system moved into there. I (very ignorantly) initially set things up like they'd been in a prior and totally different room - and they were obviously not as wonderful. Then I started down that rabbit hole of treatments etc. but luckily learned some similar placement recommendations. My placement now is not quite exactly what was quoted but that one adjustment made a large difference - both to my ears and to all the measurements I was taking. I guess I was just ignorant - but I got better. It costs nothing to at least experiment with different placement and you just might get that smile back on your face. And if not - well, then just PM me for my address... |
I ended up in a 10 by 12.5 foot room...it was ported or no ported cabinet?...I was getting a lot of boom...I ended up with atc 19...as yogiboy suggested that non ported cab does work well in smaller room...speakers are just under 6’ apart...have them 40" (front/tweeter) back...sitting 6’ back...about the same as youre given dimensions for youre room...I did get rid of first reflections because of axis is straight at me...that made a huge difference. Just corner bass traps....did a all day set up on speakers and it really paid off...I do listen to same music pretty much...hard to go wrong with the handfull of English made standmounts available... |
Okey dokey. Before spending a lot of dough, moving things around is a lot easier and a hell of a lot cheaper. So based on my room dimensions please send me your recommendations of what you feel is an ideal starting point for speaker placement. I will use measurements to tweeter centres. I have mine currently toed in as well. Fire away @audioconnection and @mr_hosehead... |
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