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12'x16'x8' room OK for good stand mounts?

I got the OK from the wife to repurpose a room in the house as a listening room. The room is 11.5 x 15.5 x 8. I have always loved the sound of Joseph Audio speakers as I have heard them at every RMAF until they cancelled the show :-(

So I’m thinking this is the time to get Prisms or even Pulsars! My question to the group here is about the room and the speakers. I realize I will need room treatments. Since I’m about to retire, I will have time to build the room treatments and do lots of measurements to tune the room and speaker placement. The floor is concrete slab with 3/4" carpet pad and wall to wall relatively thick carpet. The walls are wood frame with sheet rock. I listen to rock, jazz, and classical at moderate volumes.

Will the room be too small for Pulsars or Prisms?

I also love the sound of Monitor Audio Golds. I was thinking Gold 200's, but I also worry the room would be too small for 200's. 

I appreciate any advice 

allanmarcus
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curiousjim
4,640 posts
 

That room size is perfect for the Prism or the Pulsar2’s. Depending on your musical tastes, you always add a sub or two later.

All the best.

urbie
275 posts
 

actually you won't need room treatments if you treat the vibration coming from your speakers with Townshend podiums, they're not cheap but they totally eliminate the problems in the room that speaker vibration cause, room problems just disappear, look them up, best upgrade I've ever done, it sounded like I had upgraded all my electronics, it also gets rid of the constant Earth vibration that's in the Earth all the time, the improvement is mind-blowing. they isolate down to three Hertz.

urbie
275 posts
 

the monitor audio gold 200 and 300 sound amazing and your room is not too small my room is only eight and a half by 23 and I have the platinum 200 ll and they sound incredible.

urbie
275 posts
 

unfortunately the Joseph audio aren't as good as the new gold that MPD Tweeter is way better than any dome tweeter on the market the three-dimensionality is huge The sounds they just envelops the whole room as good as a Joseph are their driver technology hasn't changed in 30 years and they're nowhere near as three dimensional as the monitor audio gold and platinum.

ronboco
831 posts
 

A floorstander speaker will definitely work in your room if you can get the room dialed in. I use a corner set up as suggested above. I highly recommend a consultation with Jeff at hdacoustics. He is very good with smaller rooms. 
good luck ! 
 

Ron 

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