I was recently auditioning preamps in a large room (not quite as high of a ceiling as yours) and the Virgos sounded fabulous and I like my music loud. The system (Virgos, Classe Monoblocks, BAT CD and Rogue 99) made my music (all genres) sound the best I've heard it! I'm a Maggie owner and am hard to impress when it comes to box speakers, but the Virgos were excellent. FWIW, the synergy between the Virgos and 99 was unbelievable - the sound was much better than with a BAT 3VKi in the system.