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Best Speaker Choice for my very "non-audio-friendly" Living Room

New to A-Gon, and looking for advise on purchasing a set of speakers.
My room is about as sound stage unfriendly as you can imagine (Hard to describe) as the center of the room is a huge fireplace with speaker placement options limited to about 25' apart from each other on each side of the fireplace. The room is approx 30' by 14' so my listening distance from each speaker is 15' & 16' from my center chair.
With that said, I have always (maybe wrongly) been inclined to buy big powerful speakers in an attempt to fill the room with good sound.
Up til now I have been running an Anthem 540 Amp, and running my fronts through a Peachtree 500 from the Pre-Outs on the Anthem to a set of Cerwin Vega Twin 15's. I actually liked the sound of this setup, but the twin 15s were just huge and honestly obnoxious on the living room (my wife had a stronger opinion on that than I did lol) 
So, I have moved the big Vega's down to the shop / pool room  and thats where they will live with a modest emotiva amp/pre amp combo that works well. 
I like the option of a Klipsch Cornwall (old school look, but much shorter and more esthetically appealing than the Vega's or maybe a set of Focal 948's which I listened to at the local shop. Both of these options are in my price range, and I "think" would give me the sound / performance I loved with my Old Vega's but look much better in the room. 
Any advice from the experts on this forum would be greatly appreciated. 
 
carzmaguy88
hshifi
572 posts
 
Hello,
I think you should go with the Revel m126 be with the matching stands. These speakers will sound amazing in your room. The wave guide prefers an untreated room. You will swear there is a sub in the room because the base and mid base is on point. These speakers filled my 14x24x8 room with ease. When you hear them in your room you will understand. Plus, they even sound great when listening off axis. 
flevick
12 posts
 
Do you live in an octagonal house?
carzmaguy88 OP
25 posts
 
Yes, that would be a good way of describing the living area. 
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m669326
326 posts
 
My room is indescribably weird and my ATC SCM40s (passive) sound great in there. Sealed box with excellent off-axis sound and non-fussy placement. New, they're 7k. You can get nice used ones for $3800-ish. Monitor-ish sound with a hint of warmth. British. Check them out.
I haven't heard most of the suggested speakers by other posters, so I can't provide any direct comparisons.
mofojo
2,170 posts
 
Couple people mentioned Tekton. For your purpose I would say absolutely not as well as pretty much any other conventional speaker. They do not have very good off axis dispersion at all in my experience. Ohm or other Omni seems a no brainer. 
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