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Recommend speakers for a large living room

Hi, I am moving to a new apartment with a large living room (38" x 23", plus a dining area & kitchen). I am planning to have 2 different sitting areas given the size. Here is a picture of the floor-plan: https://ibb.co/J5szvj9

Everything is wood floors except on the blue squares where I plan to put carpet. I’ve been thinking of using omni-directional speakers (German Physiks Borderland) given the area is large and there are multiple listening locations. But I’d like to get some recommendations & also some ideas of where it would be best to place the speakers - so far my idea is to put them on the red circles.

My budget for speakers is ~$50,000.

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joshfilm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2ch8aQLwUY&app=desktop

Found this link that describes spatial qualities... see end of video for Laufer’s explanation.
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asvjerry
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Pity the audition is in the typical hotel room....

HO, line source speakers sound best in a large uncluttered space, more ’hall’ than ’cluttered’.  Not the typical living room with the usual 'living room accoutrama' .

Lines could work @ the window wall location; @ the circles, feeding into the dining area...*ehh*
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asvjerry
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*Oooo* Post #666! *L*

"The devil made me do it..."

Oh, BS...I can do fine by myself...*LOL*
jhills
624 posts
 
With your budget and the amount of space to fill - hands down I would choose either the Sound Lab 845s, 945s or the Maggie 30.7s. Either, when set up properly ( in the location of your red dots would work great - just would have to experiment with distance from the wall behind and toe in) would make a beautiful, well balanced and detailed stage and imaging that would not shift, change, or collapse, regardless of where you are in the room/rooms.  Whether seated or standing anywhere near the sweet zone, either would present a very large, deep stage with pin-point imaging and timber to rival any of the speakers mentioned.
The need for massive amounts of power is a bit over stated. I can't imagine any tolerable sound level that couldn't be (with high quality) attained with a pair of Carver, Crimson/Raven 350 mono, tubes or a quality, high current SS amp.

If a low powered SET amp is your thing, I agree that the super efficient, very nice, open baffle, Spatial Audio X3, would be a great speaker for your large room/rooms. Un-rivaled in performance by anything even close to it's less than $8K price tag - would save you many thousands to put somewhere else. 

Jim
  
fleschler
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gammajo  That's even larger than my former listening room.  Do you think that the 55Ks would be okay in a much smaller room, 15' X 20' X 10' high?  The room is extremely well insulated (16" compound walls/12" 3000 psi reinforced concrete floors-$160K built).  The bass wouldn't be a problem as I am currently using Legacy Focuses with 6 12" woofers but the bass is limited to 25 Hz (okay with me).  I know the Ultra 9s are way too big.
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