Best Speaker Choice for my very "non-audio-friendly" Living Room
This is a rather wide criteria except "quite big" and up to the budget of the Cornwalls. Is imaging a big thing? Have you considered open baffles like Spatials? https://www.spatialaudiolab.com/models Then again, if you've demoed some models you like already, that's worth a lot. |
Thanks for the reply! Imaging is not as critical to us, and it is a very novice / wide question indeed. Haven't looked at the open baffle idea yet, had not considered them. Very different! Guess I'm just looking for opinions as to what the best overall sound quality I can achieve from a $6000 range set of speakers when proper speaker placement is really not possible, or if I'm just throwing money away when It really wont make much difference due to my room restrictions. |
Interesting question. So, if imaging isn’t important… what is the purpose of the liven room system? Listening for many? Casual. The fireplace, how wide… how far from the listening area? a couch? things I am thinking is stuff like high quality monitors on stands closer together. What about and audio[like room elsewhere and doing Omni directional speakers in the living room that will not creat mass bass overloading and can be closer and not as obvious. You could put a couple photos in your system profile so we could get a better idea of the challenge. Honestly it sounds an interesting challenge. |
An open baffle is a strong choice as it directly seeks to address the acoustic problems with the directivity of box speakers in a problematic room. Here’s the late, great Siegfried Linkwitz discussing the same https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrxwudn7C4w My concern is audition/demo is more important than anything else, so you’d want to be able to listen/return anything you are seriously shortlisting; especially for this price. |
