You can easily do this without sacrificing any musical enjoyment.
Since your room is lively look for a speaker that has a natural high frequency rolloff. For example, a Linaeum tweeter based speaker, even against a wall, offers good dispersion. You can get one packaged in a Radio Shack LX5 Pro, off ebay for +- 100 a pair. They are excellent and will fill your room with drive and pace. Drive them with solid state so you don't have to worry about retubing/biasing etc. I would select a classic Luxman R1040 or R1050 receiver for the job- $75 to $225, again off ebay. It's smooth and detailed and works great with LX5s. Get a good pair of headphones for private listening and a squeezebox to access your music. Total cost: under $500.
Peter
Since your room is lively look for a speaker that has a natural high frequency rolloff. For example, a Linaeum tweeter based speaker, even against a wall, offers good dispersion. You can get one packaged in a Radio Shack LX5 Pro, off ebay for +- 100 a pair. They are excellent and will fill your room with drive and pace. Drive them with solid state so you don't have to worry about retubing/biasing etc. I would select a classic Luxman R1040 or R1050 receiver for the job- $75 to $225, again off ebay. It's smooth and detailed and works great with LX5s. Get a good pair of headphones for private listening and a squeezebox to access your music. Total cost: under $500.
Peter