Thanks to all-- I appreciate the info. I clicked on the "near backwall placement" thread and it was helpful too. As long as we're on the topic, the range of monitors I'm looking in is the SF Concerto and smaller Energy Veritas, that sort of thing (around $1.5K). Given a small apartment-- listening area is about 10' x 10' and whole room is 13' wide x 27' long x 9.2' high-- i listen across the width of the room--what are your suggestions?
Please keep in mind that I don't want to get too far ahead of my front-end equipment-- I'm running a Rotel rsp-960ax preamp into a Parasound HCA-806 (6 X 80 wpc if I recall correctly). I anticipate upgrading the amp set-up to use the Parasound for center and surrounds only, and power the mains with a nice ss 2-channel amp like a little Bryston. Down the road, I definitely anticipate biamping the mains using the 2 channel solid state for the lows and a tube amp for the highs--nothing too esoteric though.
In short, I need speakers that will work nicely with my current mid-fi set-up but that will be good enough to take me through a couple substantive upgrades over the next couple of years.
Once again, thanks a lot.
D.
Please keep in mind that I don't want to get too far ahead of my front-end equipment-- I'm running a Rotel rsp-960ax preamp into a Parasound HCA-806 (6 X 80 wpc if I recall correctly). I anticipate upgrading the amp set-up to use the Parasound for center and surrounds only, and power the mains with a nice ss 2-channel amp like a little Bryston. Down the road, I definitely anticipate biamping the mains using the 2 channel solid state for the lows and a tube amp for the highs--nothing too esoteric though.
In short, I need speakers that will work nicely with my current mid-fi set-up but that will be good enough to take me through a couple substantive upgrades over the next couple of years.
Once again, thanks a lot.
D.