Which speaker for "bright" room? Brand A, B orC?


The acoustic properties of a given room considerably impact a speaker’s performance. In your opinion, what is the BEST speaker ($4,000-$8,000) for an AWFULLY bright room? (Two channel audio)
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I guess what it sounds like you're looking for is a speaker with a rolled off high end. Nowadays, even modestly-priced speakers have pretty decent high ends, and I don't know of any audiophile speakers that are really rolled off (almost by definition).

In addition to causing too much high frequency energy, a "BRIGHT" room can result in a high ratio of reflected to direct sound, and this can hurt your imaging and sound staging, as well as sound tizzy. I would recommend you consider damping the room down until it isn't really bright, then getting a good audiophile speaker whose sound you like. If necessary, you could add a room equalizer to smooth out the response. I know this sounds like you're taking away just to add back, but I really think this is the right approach.

Trying to buy a crummy speaker that will just exactly compensate for unquantified, unmeasured, bad room acoustics is probably not the way to go.