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In Reply to: RE: General small room speaker setup posted by airtime on July 09, 2016 at 11:53:08
Broken record here but this is a job for the Audio Note K. being sealed boxed cabinets they're pretty room friendly. Stuff them tight into the corners of your room or right up against the wall (I mean as close as you can without touching).They're happy with 7 watts per channel and you get bass (from the corner) down to 36hz covering most of the audible range without begging for a sub.
With the Brexit thing the prices seem to be considerably lower than before.
Small rooms can be tough especially if the speaker is a space hog in requiring several fee behind or beside them then an already small room becomes even smaller. I have found front ported horns to work in corners pretty well because they tend to be more directional which is actually an ok thing if you are listening in the sweetspot. Still I've owned the AN K/Spe so I feel more comfortable recommending a speaker that I owned and would buy again over a speaker I liked at a show once on one day.
A less expensive option would be the AN AX Two (but they are constantly sold out so good luck ever getting one) followed by my KEF LS-50 - the LS-50 does come with port plugs and you can put them a bit closer to walls. Various LS-3/5a copycats are out there but they're all a big step down in my opinion. And not enough of a step down in price. But others like them. Indeed, you could even try on wall speakers. They take up even less room - I heard a pretty nice sounding set of M&K Speakers for on wall. Geared mainly for home theater but they still sounded nice and not terribly expensive. It's a bit out of the box thinking here but if you can give them a listen somewhere you might like them.
Even those Gallo sphere speakers might be worth a shot.
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36 hz botom? That i doubt based on my experience as a past owner.
It's tough to say - I have owned AN's in North America with wood framed homes and in HK with Concrete walls - AN specs are usually states as "with solid walls" which means solid - wood isn't. I can say I get far far tighter and deeper bass in Hong Kong with concrete walls than I do in Canada with wood walls - it was also my experience at audio shows - The AN E was easily a top 3 room at The Show in the Flamingo (concrete) and boomy and coloured in the CAS hotel made of paper thin rubbish walls.
The K is about 50hz apparently free standing. They have more bass than my KEF LS-50 which is rated to ~50hz by Stereophile's graphs. Either are at least 20-40hz deeper in bass than any LS-3/5a though so...
You certainly are right about walls in my case, something that has forced me to move away from AN loudspeakers, sadly.
Warren Jarret seemed to fix the problem by simply making his own corners. Won best of show and even guys who hated AN's ended up choosing them as best they had heard. But you then have to ugly up your room.
You can see what he has done here. It's a pretty simple thing and frankly all the demonstrators should see it and then use it.
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