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Looking for speakers in a large vaulted great room

I have a large great room that we are building that will have the dining room in between the great room and the kitchen.  The 2 rooms combined will be about 21’ wide by 30’ long to the edge of the kitchen.  The room is vaulted, and will have a wall of glass, sliding glass doors and windows on one side leading to the outside.  Needless to say this is not an ideal listening room, but I would like to have some speakers that fill the space with music.  I am not trying to do surround sound, just 2 channel from one end, opposite the kitchen.  There will be a fireplace at that end, and I could do floor speakers or bookshelf, although there will be a window on either side of the fireplace, so the bookshelf speaker would have to sit on top of a built in-cabinet below the windows.  Not looking to add anything to the walls, trying to make the room an enjoyable space with great sounding music.  Willing to look at used speakers as well. Any thoughts?

nashvegastitan
nashvegastitan OP
14 posts
 

Thanks @norge0517 I have a pair of B&W bookshelf speakers now.

@kennyc not familiar with Larsen, but sounds promising as well.

feliks
17 posts
 

Believe it or not, you can actually fill the space with quality sound bookshelves: with the Boenicke W5s on stands. However to paraphrase the adage adapted for subs, you can go for small, cheap and deep, but only 2 out of the 3. Here you can get small and audiophile, but it’s expensive. Not just the speakers themselves but amplification: they need ginourmous power (more specifically current) to drive them in a space like that. But a reasonable option there is Parasound…

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johnmarzy
42 posts
 

From a different perspective, I have a similarly sized, vaulted, living room and eventually went with Maagepanes because of the ease of moving them out from the wall, as needed, to enjoy music, and easily moving them back against the wall to enjoy the living room

jtucker
105 posts
 

For what its worth, I have a similar room set up and use ML Montis.  I am not allowed to use any room treatments, rugs, etc.  I have them positioned to "work with the room"

I used to have the Infinity RSIIs.  If you can handle the size, they would work well for you.  The only downside is the woofers need periodic surround replacement.

Those Fortes look nice also...

bishop148
67 posts
 

If you're like me and like to crank it up at times - JBL is the go. A little outside your price range but they are amazing speakers. I've owned so many different speakers over the decades but always return to JBL.

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