Apartment Living. Need Suggestions For Speakers Placed Near Front Wall

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Posted by Mister Pig (A) on September 28, 2015 at 12:04:23

It is a long story, but after many years we are leaving our area and moving to the west side of the state. This means selling our 2600 SQF home, and living in an apartment for at least a year, perhaps two.

This means radical changes to the stereo hobby, and requiring a new way to set up and listen to audio.

The deal is I will have room for two three low boy racks on the wall. And the speakers need to be located on each side, and I can get them about 8 feet apart at most. They can come no farther into the room than the front of the rack, which are 18 inches deep. The listening chair is going to be a max of 8 feet way, more like 7 feet between me and the speakers. This is the only location possible in this apartment.

My current gear uses an Electra Print 300 Custom amplifier that is good for 8 WPC. But my speakers are Hawthorne Audio Trio on open baffles, and currently have the 4 feet of the front wall. I do not see them working in this current application, especially since the wall is a shared wall with the next apartment. Now I have a F6 clone that is having a few things changed on it as it underwent shipping damage, and that amp more than likely will take the place of the EP amp. This gives me 30 WPC of power, so should open my speaker choice up some.

It has been a long long time since I used any conventional speakers, especially ones that were designed to be placed near a front wall. As I recall from the way back machine there were certain Linn, Mission, and other Brit speakers that were designed this way.

Does anyone know of others that might fit the bill?

As a side note I could also free up some room by moving to a laptop for CD storage, although my preferred DAC does not have USB input. Has anyone used the Gustard USB/SPDIF converter and had positive results? I am truly satisfied with this DAC so swapping it out is really not an option. Actually it sounds very nice with my EAD T1000 transport, but this has more to do with conserving space and not having my CD collection clutter up the living room.

Regards
Mister Pig

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Topic - Apartment Living. Need Suggestions For Speakers Placed Near Front Wall - Mister Pig 12:04:23 09/28/15 (29)

RE: Apartment Living. Need Suggestions For Speakers Placed Near Front Wall - 4Play 12:05:29 10/07/15 (0)

Go here and get a pair:-) http://www.blumensteinaudio.com/store/ - bare 10:02:40 10/05/15 (0)

RE: Apartment Living. Need Suggestions For Speakers Placed Near Front Wall - orpheus 10:42:55 10/04/15 (0)

RE: Apartment Living. Need Suggestions For Speakers Placed Near Front Wall - mcp 14:38:21 10/03/15 (0)

Have you considered a Victrola? - genungo 11:56:48 10/01/15 (0)

RE: Apartment Living. Need Suggestions For Speakers Placed Near Front Wall - mace 08:00:03 10/01/15 (0)

RE: Apartment Living. Need Suggestions For Speakers Placed Near Front Wall - kh6idf 04:48:11 10/01/15 (0)

RE: Apartment Living. Need Suggestions For Speakers Placed Near Front Wall - AudioSoul 20:49:40 09/30/15 (0)

Look at Reference 3A Dulcet or DeCapo... - musetap 13:35:33 09/29/15 (0)

RE: Apartment Living. Need Suggestions For Speakers Placed Near Front Wall - Mister Pig 08:28:30 09/29/15 (1)

I forgot to mention Genelecs! - MannyE 17:07:33 09/29/15 (0)

Consider Ohm Speakers - G Squared 05:43:50 09/29/15 (2)

RE: Consider Ohm Speakers - kbuzz 14:51:53 10/04/15 (1)

RE: Consider Ohm Speakers - kbuzz 12:29:09 10/08/15 (0)

Small Merlins. - reuben 05:05:17 09/29/15 (0)

RE: Apartment Living. Need Suggestions For Speakers Placed Near Front Wall - RGA 22:57:36 09/28/15 (1)

RE: Apartment Living. Need Suggestions For Speakers Placed Near Front Wall - gbeard 05:02:16 10/05/15 (0)

RE: Apartment Living. Need Suggestions For Speakers Placed Near Front Wall - Montobo 18:39:42 09/28/15 (0)

Audiokinesis - X1992 18:32:24 09/28/15 (0)

Guru QM10 - Waxxy 18:13:52 09/28/15 (0)

RE: Apartment Living. Need Suggestions For Speakers Placed Near Front Wall - BCR 16:56:11 09/28/15 (0)

RE: Apartment Living. Need Suggestions For Speakers Placed Near Front Wall - Shaun E 14:40:51 09/28/15 (0)

Hornshoppe horns might work - flatmap 14:05:33 09/28/15 (2)

+1 for the Horn Shoppe Horns - 1973shovel 14:26:20 09/28/15 (1)

+2 for the Horn Shoppe Horns - MannyE 15:36:35 09/28/15 (0)

How big is the listening room? - Gary 14:02:32 09/28/15 (0)

RE: Apartment Living. Need Suggestions For Speakers Placed Near Front Wall - Bodhi 12:57:06 09/28/15 (0)

Headphones? - MannyE 12:22:47 09/28/15 (1)

RE: Headphones? - Mister Pig 12:41:06 09/28/15 (0)

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