dynuaudio c-1s in a small 10x12 room?/amppower?

You will be just fine in a room of that size. Even though they are rear ported, you can put a c1 within 6-10" or so of the wall and still get great sound. If you get too much bass, but a foam plug in the port. You will likely need to do this.

Amps: I would go for something more along the lines of a nice high quality 50-100 watt ss amplifier or better yet a tube amplifier. In general low powered quality ss amps tend to be a little sweeter than high powered. The lower power in your room will result in less authoritative bass, which will help with the small room. A tube amp is great with C1's because tube amps have wonderful low level resolution and the C1's Esotar tweeter will show this off quite nicely.

Disclaimer: I have financial ties to av industry.

I'm going to buck just about everyone here, but hear me out.

I'm also in a 10'x12' room with a pair of monitors very similiar to the C1's. I auditioned both extensively when I went to replace my B&W Silver Signature's.

I also tried a Pass XA30.5 amp, thinking that it would be enough power in the small room. It wasn't! You need power for the C1's, just like I do.

Now here's the kicker. My chair is centered and up against the back wall. My speakers are 8' from the front wall, 4' from my head. I have no room treatments other than crown molding because of where the speakers are located.

A good friend and super audiophile set my room up this way for me, and I freaked out when I saw it. Then I sat down and the soundstage was not in my face, but back behind the speakers. The real blessing was that my soundstage was much deeper than it had ever been before.

It may break every standard audio setup, but it is insanely good. Everyone who walks into my room thinks that they're going to be blasted out, but after they sit down and listen, it's nothing but smiles at what they're hearing.

Chuck

Chuck...I like your near-field set-up as a solution for a small square room set-up. Pulling the speakers 8' into the room from the front wall makes sense in terms of taking out that wall from the equation. The question I have is did you put any absorption or diffusion panels right behind your listening position on the back wall to treat rear wall reflections since you are sitting right up against that back wall. Secondly any treatments for side-wall reflections? Interesting solution for sure...

Cmalak,

No, I have no treatments at all except that I removed my old and only Echo Busters Corner Busters when I put up the crown molding.

I had bought absorbers and diffusors to try, but all the absorbers did was suck the life out of the music and the diffusors didn't even make a difference.

It's funny, but great because the absorbers and diffusors cost a pretty penny, made the small room look smaller and didn't do anything to a good effect.

My room looks like a normal room with a stereo in it and sounds fantastic!

Chuck

Chuck, from your description of your room you are probably hearing a lot of music reflected from your walls, front to back then to you. If this works great, phase would be difficult to get right but perhaps with a room small enough such a trick might really be the ticket. I know most small room set ups I have seen have placed the speakers as close to the back wall as possible, and they usually sounded muffled and bloated. Your set up is really unique but I can see where it could work. Thanks for sharing the ideas.