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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
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johnmarzy
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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
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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
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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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mattmiller
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McIntosh made speakers and still makes speakers (although now very expensive) that are made to fill a large room with High Quality sound. One of the first ever made was the XRT 20 speaker system. You can still find these today and if you feed them 500wpc of good clean power you’ve got a live Orchestra in your room! (regardless of size) And these go flat up against the wall, they are acoustic suspension not bass reflex design. 

 

 www.roger-russell.com/xrt20.htm

 

Matt M

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ejlif
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Yeah so what if you don't have a perfect room.  I think a huge room like that is a unique opportunity to hear music in a different space.  I would get something that you like the looks of.  That is probably pretty important if you have to keep your partner happy with the looks.  Just get some big floor standers if have the room.  I'd get something used with a big bang for the buck.  You won't go wrong with any Wilson or Dynaudio or yes Klipsch Cornwall would be good too.  I would get something I like the looks of first of all.  Klipsch and Wilson are really different (I own both) they both have their merits.  The both look really different too, likely one will fit your aesthetic more than the other. 

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