Small Room, Move Often, Speaker Suggestions.

Add the Gershman Acoustics Avant garde RX 20 and the VMPS RM 1 to your checkout list - I own the RX20's -- great - I also own the RM 40 but the RM 1 is an exceptional value and easy to handle and place - a friend has a pair.

Have you considered the Revel M-20's? Read the review in the Feb./Mar. Absoulute Sound. I heard them recently -- very impressive.

Totem model 1.The're tiny,they play every kind of music well,and can really pound out the bass if you like.

I'm having very good luck in a small 12x12x9 room using the Spendor S3/5. I was previously using the excellent Martin Logan Aerius i but wanted to find a small speaker that didn't make me feel like I was taking a step backwards in sound quality. The Spendors are doing great on 26" Sanus ultima stands. I'm driving them with a 300b (Cary 300sei) 11 watt integrated amp. Since the Spendors are sealed boxes, the low frequencies fall off at a gentle rate and extend flat to 40 hz with room reinforcement. I have never been able to achive this when auditioning bass reflex ported high quality monitors. The S3/5 are easy to drive and have steadily improved over the first month of ownership. You can get away with small watts if 1. you have a small room, and 2. you do not listen at high sbl levels (80db is loud in my room). Your 80 watt per channel amp should prove terrific.