[Tom M]

what might be the best speaker to use in a small closed in space. This is a bedroom with a lot of furnature. Due to room design I have to place the speakers infront of the long wall. Imagine a very small rectangular room with your seating postion faceing the long wall and your speakers on the opposite long wall facing you. This situation places me very close to the speakers. Maybe about four to five feet away when sitting on the edge of my bed. My guess is that if any thing is possible I would have to use very small speakers and keep them no more than about 4ft apart maybe less. I was thinking of placeing a very small pair on top of a dresser that I have in this room. This piece of furnature is about 4ft tall which would put the speakers a liittle higher than what might be prefered but it might work in acheiving half decent sound. For now I use headphones all the time. I would probably continue to use headphones because I feel I hear more in the recordings I listen too. even so it would be nice to have something to use when I don't want to wear headphones.

 

[Lisa]

I have a simulair problem, speakers in a very small room.

I have ordered the Dynaudio Audience 52's cause I've heard they do well in a small room.
When I have them I'll let you know if this is true.

-edit-
Think this thread should be in :Cables, Power, Tweaks, Speakers, Accessories forum.
Maybe a mod can move it

 

[Pappucho]

I have read good things about Triangle's Titus, although I have never heard them personally. I currently have a pair of NHT super ones which I have enjoyed for several years now and I highly recommend them. What's your budget?

 

[Dusty Chalk]

What you are basically describing is near-field listening. Inherently, there ain't nothing wrong with that. What's nice is that you have an asymmetrical room. So it's not all bad.

I use Spendor S3/5A's with a sub, but that may be a bit much for you. I like them because they have no ports (among many other things).

 

[Outdoor Man]

Maybe you shout try the speakers corner in London

Peter.
(Who's trying to be funny, but fails).

 

[D-EJ915]

I'd say, pick up a set of Logitech's Z-560 PC speakers (4.1), they are 400 watts and should fit you well, my room is small and they definetely pump out the sound (especially bass, but it's kind of bloated since it's a 8" driver!! that's 188 watts)--very good speakers, just equalize them, they're kind of bright

 

[blr]

Small sealed enclosure speakers are ideal for small rooms. Ported ones are very sensitive to positioning and generally tend to sound boomy in rooms smaller than 25-30 m2.

PS: I may be selling my Dali speakers soon Drop me a PM if interested I bought them exactly for the same purpose and they do deliver.

 

[Sovkiller]

In this room there is not much you can do, get a nice pair of near field studio monitors and they will perform very nice there according to your geometrical conditions, there are hundreds of them, I will suggest you the Alesis Monitor one MKII, I have a pair and the sound is impresive for the price, about 200 or so right now...do not subestimate the sound of those cause of the price, the internal components are very good and is extremlly detailed....just get them where you can return them, and give them a try, the Dynaudios shoud be nice but they may need more power to sound good, and cost about five times or more that price, and do not perform 5 times better, I wish to have a pair here now, but not at this price, otherwise if you want to go DIY, I can give you some good links for that purpose, of kits just ready to assemble, for a very moderate price that could outperform speakers costing as ten times more....just PM ne if interested...I was involved in the same situation for some time...

 

[SuperGiraffe]

Dynaudio 52 would be my recommendation -- only caveat is they need a lot of power. I've also heard the PSB Alpha in nearfield in a friend's system, and thought it was pretty good, and it probably won't need as much power as the Dyns and be quite a bit cheaper, too.

 

[pigmode]

The LS35a is designed for situations exactly like that.

http://www.ls35a.com/

 

[bundee1]

Thats exactly how I have my system set up. It sounds really good. Check out speakers with sealed enclosures or front ported models like the JMLabs Chorus 705. I think they go for about $300. Check my systems pix out for a setup similar to what you mentioned.

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr...e1&4&5#Bundee1

 

[Lisa]

Quote:

Originally posted by Sovkiller I will suggest you the Alesis Monitor one MKII, I have a pair and the sound is impresive for the price, about 200 or so right now...do not subestimate the sound of those cause of the price, the internal components are very good and is extremlly detailed....just get them where you can return them, and give them a try, the Dynaudios shoud be nice but they may need more power to sound good, and cost about five times or more that price, and do not perform 5 times better,

200 for a pair or for one?

Cause I ordered the Dynaudio's for a bit over €400 per one.
That's 2 1/2 times as much not 5 times. Except if it's 200 a pair.

 

[Sovkiller]

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Originally posted by Lisa 200 for a pair or for one? Cause I ordered the Dynaudio's for a bit over €400 per one. That's 2 1/2 times as much not 5 times. Except if it's 200 a pair.

200.00 USD a pair, if you paid 800 Euros for a a pair, make you math, is more than 4 times the price, and maybe you got a good deal on them, the 200 even when is not the retail, is easy to get here this price for them, at least when I got them some time ago, and the sound difference (if any) IS NOT WORTH THE DIFFERENCE IN PRICE, IMO ....just for curiosity, give them an audition when you get a chance, I listened a lot of the studio monitors of the market, or at least, the ones available in the musicians stores, more than fifteen pairs or so, and non of them outperform the Alesis IMHO (and I could afford to get any of them at that time, the difference where not that much except for the Dynaudios) two ways, and near to mid field talking, don't know about a much bigger ones.

 

[tom hankins]

I also recommend any of the Spendor speakers. If you have room for a small footprint floor stander. The Monitor Audio S6 are real nice for $1K. Also look into Epos, super nice for the money.

 

[chadbang]

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I use Spendor S3/5A's with a sub

Yummy!