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Small-ish speakers for a very large room?

Hello,

I recently moved into a new condo which has a really large living room. The room itself is probably 35' x 17' with 12' ceillings; but the room is actually a partial loft - the wall opposite the stereo only goes up 7' leading into a 14' x 14' bedroom.

Needless to say, the room sounds pretty cavernous.

I have always built my stereo built around listening - I have a full Lineaum home theater (the Lineaum-brand 2-way tower speakers with the LX-5's as surrounds, and their "matching" center channel). Unfortunately, since I moved, everything just sounds anemic.

It's probably time for a change anyway - so I'm looking into a few different options. Unfortunately, I'm also on a tight budget.

How do people think that the Magnepan MMG's would do in a room this large? What other reasonably priced speakers would do well in a room so volumous?

I have no qualms with going with used speakers - I just want to spend less than $1000 for the pair and less than $500 for the matching center. I'm also not opposed to bookshelf speakers or speakers that would necessitate a sub for home theater.

Thanks in advance for everyone's advice.
hudsonhawk
dwhitt
347 posts
 
anyone for lunn tukan or katans
scpetscott
47 posts
 
Best thing to do would be to purchase 2 subs..(or one good one like HSU) and use speakers like Anthony Gallo's A'divas... or Infinity Primus 160 etc...which are amazing speakers for the price... use a good home theater receiver and use the bass management to cut off low frequencies around 120.... they will play plenty loud to fill your room.
tobias
1,534 posts
 
I have a pair of Triangle Titus ES on stands, serving as nearfield monitors in my bedroom. They are quite smooth and detailed, and very lively and musically satisfying. I think they would work very well in a combined music / HT system. Of course they are small. The next model up, the Comète, is still in your price range and delivers more bass. Aball, a member here, has a pair of these and might be willing to talk about them.

Either of these would work well with a sub or subs. And of course if you buy used, you can look higher up the Triangle range. All Triangles are efficient, a plus for your room, and any Triangle model I've heard sounds better to me--more refined and detailed--than the PSBs and Energys I know. (Not to knock the Canadians, I am one after all, and they are certainly cheaper.)
hudsonhawk OP
137 posts
 
Thanks to everyone for their help. It gave me a lot of different options to think about.

Last night I picked up a sub - which did solve the problem but only for home theater. It turns out (and I should've known this going into it) that my B&K Reference 10's bass management only works well for digital sources; if you turn it on for an analog source it sounds like it's digitizing the signal, crossing it over digitally, and spitting it back out again.

In other words, it sounds awful.

So - I'm returning the sub. Many people suggested them, and the store I frequent has a pair of floor-sample PSB Image T-45's - so I'm going to give those a try.

Thanks again everyone.
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