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My Room Size for Speaker Consideration

As I look at possible speaker sizes for my new 2-channel, I'm wondering how I should look at my room dimensions.  The family room is 15' x 20'.  On the 15' length (where I sit), there is a knee wall that opens into the kitchen, which is another 10' x 20':

At it's smallest, it's 300 sq ft
At largest, it's 500. sq ft.

To better match the speaker size, which room size should I consider? 

(I'm dreaming of the Focal Sopra 2, and their website is kind to recommend room dimensions)
bgm1911
willgolf
936 posts
 
If your heart is set on Focal Sopra 2's they will work greeat in your room.  I have had smaller speakers in a larger room that you are talking about and they worked fine.  I assume you will be listening to them at 10-15 feet away.  Your bound to get tons of suggestions to consider other speakers.  I would stick to wha you enjoy.  Room treatments will help if your spouse will allow you to but SR HFT's also help.
james633
1,024 posts
 
15x20 is a good listening room. You can make pretty much anything work in there.  Sopra 2 Sopra 3 both would be fine. 
yyzsantabarbara
4,814 posts
 
I have a Thiel CS3.7 in a 11 x 12 x 9 (plus extra room from closet). See my Virtual System photos. The room is treated with GIK acoustic panels and the digital streaming source is treated with DSP that was setup remotely by a super talented audio engineer. The sound is perfect and I even sit off center.

I have some links on some of my old posts that go into detail of how this was accomplished. Send me a DM if you want more details from me.
bgm1911 OP
17 posts
 
@yyzsantabarbara 

thanks for sharing info about those panels, they seem to be very popular as they're seen in a lot of pics and videos of systems.
yyzsantabarbara
4,814 posts
 
@bgm1911 The GIK panels were nice when I had a small monitor in the room, KEF LS50. With that speaker the panels were all I needed. However, I wanted a bigger speaker in this space and the panels really do not solve that problem. They help but relying on those alone will not make a big speaker work in a small room.

If you are interested follow the links I listed on this post.
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/benchmark-la4-preamp/post?highlight=Mitch%2BBarnet&postid...

Take particular note of the article on AudiophileStyle.com web site. It is exactly what I also did. I do not even need panels to get to this level of quality but since I already had them they stayed put.
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