15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume


Dear Audiophiles,

I am looking for some speakers for my home office. Speakers would be place 6ft from me on either side of my desk. Speakers will be 8 ft apart.

I love classical music and pop. I am looking for speakers for extended listening at not very high volume. They should be warm and non fatiguing.

I am currently considering following speakers:

1. Monitor Audio Gold 300

2. ATC SCM40

3. Kef R7 Meta

Do you have any other suggestions. Thanks and appreciate your help!

ilikeclassical

Showing 3 responses by elliottbnewcombjr

Would you sit backwards listening to live music? Hell NO!

In your room you can easily change your layout so you are sitting dead center of a pair of speakers, getting great sound as well as amazing imaging, hard to do in an office. I changed mine, 1st time ever having great Imaging in my office, dead center on my keyboard/monitor/chair. YouTube Videos, sound centers/images on the monitor with L/R side effects as recorded/engineered.

You can put a row of stuff including speakers on the front wall, working around the existing window.

Pull your desk back to leave a small aisle in front of your desk (you have plenty of depth).

My room is smaller, so I put 12" bookcases with 14" top, thus I have a vertical TT and Vertical Reel to Reel, as well as Little Luxman Integrated Tube Amp. You could easily put a cabinet with a top big enough for both speakers and a Horizontal Turntable now or later.

Use your existing desk, or for more surface, you could make an L shaped desk, keep keyboard/monitor centered on the speakers in the front, add side surface on the right side, side aisle to the front wall on the left closet side

mine is Left L, yours would be Right L. My front is simply a countertop on a file cabinet one end (keyboard shelf to keep desk surface open)., and side counter with support on the wall side.

 

Note: pick efficient speakers to reduce power needed, which reduces money/size/heat while increasing placement options, and allows a small tube amp (small amount of heat) if desired. In my case, I do very well with 10wpc tube amp.

Lower volumes in office, no need for very high efficiency, just avoid low sensitivity models.

Oh yeah: Pick speakers with NO REAR Port.

Note: you want the tweeters at your seated ear height, thus my bookshelf speakers are horizontal. Middle Image shows my current Restored AR-2ax speakers (white linen), other photos show prior Wharfedale 225’s (black fabric) (I used a small sub with the Wharfedales, just so they did not seem small; not needed with AR-2ax’s 10" woofer

more photos in my Virtual Systems on this site (just click anyone's name, their virtual systems, if they have made any, are shown below their name).

sources:

Fios to PC

DVD/CD drive in PC.

Streaming via PC

usb out of pc to small DAC to Luxman Line 1

TT to Luxman which has both MM and MC built in

R2R to Luxman Line 2

Volume/Mute via Luxman Remote Control.

Power: Luxman’s power button stays depressed, Chase RLC-1 unit has powered rear outlet. I use it’s remote control for Luxman power on/off, turn TT and R2R power on when in use. IOW, no need to go to the front aisle for PC based content.

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minimum cables:

cables from desk: single usb, all other cables on/within the front row devices

cable to desk: ethernet for Fios (can be wireless).

power outlets/cables: think it thru. there are advantages of L shaped desks related to power outlets/cables

Is a single Curved Monitor a possibility, i.e. sound not blocked by 2nd monitor on right side. Is it technically up to what you need? 34", but curved, so only 32" wide centered between the speakers?

Samsung CJ791 34" 21:9 Curved FreeSync VA Monitor

There must be others, just a quickie find. 4K resolution models exist also.

Pedestal Base allows passage of sound

 

 

34WQ60C-B

34" Curved UltraWide™ QHD IPS HDR 10 Monitor with Dual Controller & OnScreen Control