Room size and floor standing speakers

I have a pair of Klipschorns with a Lascala center in a room smaller than yours:17x13x8. It sounds great, but my secret is iso-wall-damping material from ASC. You also have the advantage of having room dimensions that meet the 1.6:1 "golden ratio" requirements that greatly reduce standing sound wave modes. With an 8 foot ceiling, your ideal room dimensions should be 8 x 12.8 x 20.48 feet. Check out this topic in Robert Harley's "The Complete Guide To High-End Audio"

Redwood. Thanks for the response. That is fanatastic. Now i wonder it that recommendation is based on putting the speakers on the short wall or long. I only have theoption of the long, as that is my room set up.

On the subject of the B&W's, yes it does seem they have a marketing machine. I honestly love the jm labs sound and will, money permitting, focus on some speaker from their utopia line. Either the L&R monitors or their full-blown alto or diva.

Thanks for everyones help.

Cheers,
Peter

I have heard several JM Labs speakers and was pleasantly surprised. They will offer much more speaker for the money...

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Hi Peter. JM Lab is a great choice (they prefer to be called "Focal" these days). If you don't want a sub, for a room that size and the possibility of the long wall positioning, I think the Divas would be perfect. The Divas love having some room to their sides for good bass integration and it is very hard to beat their imaging since they are so narrow. great speaker. You will only be disappointed if you don't work at setting them up properly - which means experiement with their placement. Sometimes it only takes a couple inches to make them go from good to great.

I prefer the JM Lab sound over the B&W (I currently own some N804 as well as my JM Lab 926). It boils down to the JM Labs being revealing and the B&Ws being ruthless.

Arthur

My room size is 7'8"x9'8"x12'7". My system uses a Hafler DH200 feeding Infinity Kappa 6 speakers. I have seen very large speakers in tight spaces and small speakers in expansive speakers. Aesthetics aside, acoustics, dynamic range and speaker placement will determine more about sound quality then just having large speakers.