Hello select-hifi,
I’m kinda into the idea of "best speaker for your room" rather than "best driver(s)" per se. And regarding driver choice, imo how well they all work together is imo more important than the individual excellence of any one of them.
I used to have an in-home showroom that was 13 feet by 33 feet, similar to your space, wherein I demo’d SoundLab fullrange electrostats. They were on the short wall, typically with from five to seven feet behind them, and within inches of the side walls. Apparently it worked pretty well because, using this room, I became the biggest-selling dealer SoundLab ever had, at least up until that time.
And that big full-range electrostatic diaphragm is arguably a pretty darn good driver in its own right, if we’re just comparing drivers. But I mention it because, given enough distance out from the front wall, it works well in rooms like yours.
Now if significantly "more dynamics" is high on your list of priorities, you might consider a high efficiency design, imo ideally a low-coloration horn-based system, with a radiation pattern narrow enough to avoid significant early sidewall reflections. Just so happens this is the sort of speaker I design because it works well in less than ideal rooms (and "works well with the room" is a high priority for me), but mine is not the only game in town.
Duke
I’m kinda into the idea of "best speaker for your room" rather than "best driver(s)" per se. And regarding driver choice, imo how well they all work together is imo more important than the individual excellence of any one of them.
I used to have an in-home showroom that was 13 feet by 33 feet, similar to your space, wherein I demo’d SoundLab fullrange electrostats. They were on the short wall, typically with from five to seven feet behind them, and within inches of the side walls. Apparently it worked pretty well because, using this room, I became the biggest-selling dealer SoundLab ever had, at least up until that time.
And that big full-range electrostatic diaphragm is arguably a pretty darn good driver in its own right, if we’re just comparing drivers. But I mention it because, given enough distance out from the front wall, it works well in rooms like yours.
Now if significantly "more dynamics" is high on your list of priorities, you might consider a high efficiency design, imo ideally a low-coloration horn-based system, with a radiation pattern narrow enough to avoid significant early sidewall reflections. Just so happens this is the sort of speaker I design because it works well in less than ideal rooms (and "works well with the room" is a high priority for me), but mine is not the only game in town.
Duke