This may be completely off your radar, but if space, wall distance and bass are check boxes, the Polks LSiM 703 do an amazing job of all three and have a beautiful sound to them. The rear "baffle" solved a lot of problem for placement for me and I still enjoy them.
I have a single PC-12 Plus in a room four times the size of yours and I cannot even comprehend how dual subs must sound in that room.
Just did a quick search and these and they look interesting. Going to dive into them a bit deeper. I wouldn't say bass is one of my major concerns, but I'm not against supplementing with a sub if I find it lacking with whatever I end up choosing. Thanks!This may be completely off your radar, but if space, wall distance and bass are check boxes, the Polks LSiM 703 do an amazing job of all three and have a beautiful sound to them. The rear "baffle" solved a lot of problem for placement for me and I still enjoy them.
I know they're out of production, but can still be had at a great price. Just an option
I just fired up my 7.1 channel Revel system in my basement theatre room (The Cave). It's known as The Cave because there's a rock wall that goes floor to ceiling on one end and the reflection off the wall is so severe that my room calibration system thought that 3 of my speakers were out of phase. This is going to be a challenge.
You wouldn't need subs with these, but everyone has different tastes when it comes to the low end
Sorry, I should have clarified: you can generally find a pair of Forte Is or Forte IIs in good condition for $1200 or less. The F3s are still quite spendy.
What’s hilarious is that ‘silly loud’ is probably like...6 watts.
Yeah my 800 Watt B10 is set to like 10% level on the rear controls and my room correction still wants to lower it another 10 db.
I wondered if you had a system in there and what the hell that was gonna do when I saw the photo.
Also, this is an outside shot, but I saw these on Craigslist in your area and...$350 is not bad if they’re in good shape (which it looks like they are). They’re a ‘tier’ below the Fortes in terms of their reputation, but are regarded as a really balanced, efficient, punchy speaker. And at $350 you’d have room in your budget to buy a tube amp to power them.
Haha I know, there's literally nothing i can do with that wall. But there's going to be a 10 seater couch and a 125 projector screen that will be in there soon. So that will HOPEFULLY dampen it a bit and the screen will almost completely block the wall during movies. So that should help with reflections. For music when the screen is up it definitely sounds like you're listening in a cave. But that's not likely to be a main listening room either way. The better system is upstairs.
My JoLida is 70wpc. The dial starts at 6 o'clock, and almost all my listening is between 7 and 8. 9 is deafening.
MusicDirect has a used Sphinx v2 for auction on eBay, currently going for $700.
