Lifestyle loudspeaker for living room

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I want to buy my first hi-fi speaker, but my room is small - 18 sq.m and I have not place for big box speaker system. I know that some audio company sell on-wall loudspeakers on market, for example B&W FPM2 or Canton GLE410. Can you advice me great on-wall loudspeakers and is sound from on-all much worse from normal speaker like Wharfedale 10.1 for example. My budget is 600 pound.

Thanks.

 

[Anonymous]

I am not sure if you 'need' them flat like the FPM - but I have B&W XT2's for my surround system and they work fine for stereo too.

You may be able to find a pair, although I think they recently stopped doing them - I got mine form Sevenoaks Hi-Fi .......

 

[Anonymous]

by bose (cube speakers) and similar by Tannoy and a few other makers

add a small subwoofer and they don't sound too bad

 

[the record spot]

I think Mission in the past and Wharfedale too have done some NXT speakers which apparently sound very good. Think you'd be lucky to find a pair just now, but you never know. They never really took off in the popularity stakes, but worth hunting around for them. True flat-panels that you stuck up on the wall. Can't recall the original RRP, but £250 rings a bell, so should be in your price range if you find some.

 

[the record spot]

Incidentally, Monitor Audio Radius speakers are quite slim designs, aimed at the Home Cinema market, so you'd have floorstanding models but not as big a footprint as something heftier. Maybe a bit of a halfway house?

 

[Ajani]

dim_span:

by bose (cube speakers) and similar by Tannoy and a few other makers

add a small subwoofer and they don't sound too bad

You're lucky that you're not on an American HiFi forum... Else you'd be taken out back and beaten for suggesting Bose...

 

[Ajani]

the record spot:Incidentally, Monitor Audio Radius speakers are quite slim designs, aimed at the Home Cinema market, so you'd have floorstanding models but not as big a footprint as something heftier. Maybe a bit of a halfway house?

MA Radius would be my first choice as well...

 

[Anonymous]

Ajani:dim_span:

You're lucky that you're not on an American HiFi forum... Else you'd be taken out back and beaten for suggesting Bose...

have heard these with a subwoofer and can say that I was pleasantly surprised considering their size

 

[Anonymous]

Thank you and all who replies with advice. I have just reviewed MA Radius and B&W XT2. I like MA Radius look. I think I will start with MA R90HD speakers.