Small Room Help

Rooms sound different. How much time have you spent in your new "size"?

Get some blankets and a mirror. Have someone place the mirror on the l and r side wall to where you can see the speaker in it from your listening position then attach a blanket to those positions. If you don't have carpeting on the floor, do the same thing to the floor in front of the speakers. Does that make things any better? If it does you can "upgrade" the blankets.

Even if you buy new/different speakers, it doesn't hurt to cut down on these reflection points.

As far as new speaker recs...I'd encourage you to give the different Magnepan models a listen. Being line source types, they have less side wall and floor "bounce".

B&W Matrix 802's? Those are tough beasts to power & get good results out of IMO, but they still have their fans. Or do you mean N802's?

What is your amp(s) & the rest of your system? (& WHY don't people include that sort of info when they ask questions like this)? You might need more power/better amp(s), with the 802's.....

I use a Lyngdorf DPA-1 digital preamp with RoomPerfect room correction in my room and it works wonderfully to tame my room acoustics. Plus it offers both digital and analog inputs so it's quite flexible. Hook it up to the amp and speakers of your choice, run the RoomPerfect setup, and you're 90 percent (or closer) to where you'd want to be.

I should add that this unit also contains a great DAC and digital crossover (if needed) and it sounds sweet and analogous.

Or alternately you could experiment with buying and selling every speaker you can afford until you find ones that are closer to your liking and don't forget to install copious acoustic room treatments and tube traps...