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What is the best audiophile speaker for a tiny square room?

I currently have Soundlabs M545 electrostatic speakers in my 9 x 11ft room. They are great speakers particularly for this small room because they are more directional than box speakers and therefore decrease sidewall reflections. However, like other electrostatics, they are hard to drive and require big amps (>200W), which tend to generate a lot of heat. Class Ds don't go well with ES speakers. Are there great easy to drive speakers that would work well in this room without compromising SQ?
128x128chungjh
schubert
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I have used small Totem speakers in small rooms, they are very musical  !
musicaddict
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Good luck.I am simply stunned you can listen to those speakers in a room of that size. I had Martin Logans for 16 years and they HAD to be pulled about 6 ft from the rear wall to enjoy what they could do. I'm not sure how you managed it but congrats, I guess. They are spectacular speakers, no doubt in my mind!
yyzsantabarbara
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@chungjh Did you come to a resolution to your speaker and room issues?

My floor standers in the same size room as yours are sounding amazing with the recently implemented DRC.  So good in fact that I bought a second amp yesterday to run as mono block, a Benchmark AHB2. I can make my speakers sound even bigger and more dynamic with more power (I tested this out). I have a second DRC implementation (another Convolution file) that I will use to deal with the additional bass from the additional power. All of this is done digitally on ROON (or JRiver) before the bits hit my DAC.

A lot of misinformation on this forum on DRC and I am glad I did more research and tried it out. A lot of info on this on AudiophileStyle and AudioScienceReview (ASR). I do not have any DRC involved on my Tuner or SACD player but I play those are mainly used on headphones.

A few years ago the founder of ASR, Amir, posted to me on a thread that I have to use DRC in any room. I thought he was a little over the top on that. Today, I am thinking he knew what he was talking about.
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