Is my room size going to be a problem for speakers?


A bedroom may become available in our home when one of our sons heads off to college, and I was thinking of claiming it as a listening room. Put my Rega P3 table and just listen to vinyl. For an amp I was thinking the Rega Brio, the Audiolab 6000A or 8300A, or maybe the Schiit Ragnarok. Or the older Luxman R-115 receiver I'm using in the living room.

I've been asking people about speakers, and it's starting to sound that the room size is going to be a problem. It's only 10 feet by 10 feet. I was hoping to avoid doing anything by way of room correction, and just throw in a pair of bookshelf speakers. A used pair of Totem Rainmakers was a thought, or maybe the Q Acoustics Concept 20's or even the new 3030i's. The Buchardt S300's are at the top of the list, as well as price point (about $1200 new). 

So my question concerns whether the room size is just too small. I don't want to overmatch the room with equipment that's too much for it. Should I maybe scrap the plans and use the money for living room upgrades? Or is there a way to make this work without spending too much time and effort preparing the room itself? 

Thanks for any thoughts and suggestions.


anton99
" It's only 10 feet by 10 feet "  

In a room that size, one problem is that the reflections path lengths are very short.  In general the earlier a reflection arrives, the more likely it is to be detrimental to timbre or clarity or both.  

IF you have free reign, I suggest a pair of Maggies set up along a diagonal.   Their dipole radiation pattern combined with the reflection angles will minimize early reflections relative to more conventional speakers in a more conventional configuration.   

Also, square rooms tend to be the worst from a bass mode standpoint, but dipoles have more benign room interaction in the bass region than monopoles.  

If the bass is still lumpy, try doing a setup somewhere in between "normal" and "on a diagonal".  This will put your two dipole bass sources each at a different distance from nearby room boundaries in the horizontal plane, which is beneficial for smoothing speaker/room interaction in the bass region. 

Duke
I run a pair of Vandy VLR's with subs in my 10x10' office.
I put them up near the ceiling corners on wall mounts. Monitor-like.
If you add a Belles Aria Integrated, you'd be set.
Pretty sweet to me.
Bob
Sure, put a decent sized speaker in there - and hear driver separation forever. Do the sensible thing and do bookshelf speakers, but even better, go full bore headphones with killer chair to relax
Pair of Double Impacts, DBA, Raven Nighthawk, quality SR wire, plenty of HFT.

Solid core door, weather-stripping. Nice chair. Done.

10 x 10.....

I feel pretty confident you missed that small, but important nonetheless, morsel of information.