Does size matter?


I am in a chnaging home situation and maybe looking at smaller room in future.Have your standard size 42"x12"x16" boxes now but looking for high peformance in a smaller box.Still when I throw a set of Sound ASnchors under the monitors well how much space am I saving.Have thought about $4K as target for used market and was thinking of going and giving JM Mini Utopias a listen.Would like a set of new Quads but size and placement become issue.But when I have just looked at size as a criteria I find it hard to believe that some of the companies out there lik e Sonus Faber or Dynaudio have products that really can make a bookshelf speaker worth $8K.But with size vs peformance what is out ther I might nmot be thinking of?
chazzbo

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You're current speaker's really aren't THAT big. I went through the same thing & decided to stick with floorstanders. I don't like the idea of something that costs $3000 perched on a stand with a cord stretching across the room. Audio Physic makes some great small footprint, narrow profile floorstanding speaker's such as the spark, tempo III and virgo. I like those because they are light enough to slide into the room for critical listening.

If you room is really small - like 10x10 or less, I would probably head for SET amplifier land and some high eff monitors. There is a magic about those systems. No bass or weight, but that's a good thing in a small room. The most impressive monitor's I've heard are the reference 3a's.