- May 14, 2016
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Dear hi-fi community,
First of all I want to thank all of you to share your knowledge and opinions on this forum. Me, as a hi-fi novice but eager to learn more, have gathered a lot of knowledge from all of you.
I bought a Cambridge Azur 851A amplifier and am planning to use it in a room of about 20m³ (EDIT 25) which is about 1400ft³ (EDIT 1800). Based on the forum I selected some speakers and went for an audition: B&W CM8 S2, Kef R500, Dali Opticon 6, Focal Aria 926. For my musical taste the Focal Aria 926 was really the best. I listen to pop and rock.
But the 926 are also the largest of all speakers tested. The audition room was quite large, and reading about accoustics I was doubting whether such floorstanders (40x11x14’’ or 1035x294x371mm) are a bit too big for my room. I have constructed the outline of the speakers from tin wood and put them in my room, and it sure looks large to me...
I know that there is no fixed rule on room size and speaker size, but does your guts say that I need to re-audition and maybe go for a floorstander like the Kef R300, Focal Aria 906, B&W CM5 S2, Monitor Audio Gold 200 or the Kef LS50 (albeit I do not read anywhere clearly whether my amp would have sufficient constant power to bring to most out of them)?
Unfortunately, where I live there is no shop / dealer that lets you audition at home. So, any opinions on my concern, short and long, are highly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Stijn
First of all I want to thank all of you to share your knowledge and opinions on this forum. Me, as a hi-fi novice but eager to learn more, have gathered a lot of knowledge from all of you.
I bought a Cambridge Azur 851A amplifier and am planning to use it in a room of about 20m³ (EDIT 25) which is about 1400ft³ (EDIT 1800). Based on the forum I selected some speakers and went for an audition: B&W CM8 S2, Kef R500, Dali Opticon 6, Focal Aria 926. For my musical taste the Focal Aria 926 was really the best. I listen to pop and rock.
But the 926 are also the largest of all speakers tested. The audition room was quite large, and reading about accoustics I was doubting whether such floorstanders (40x11x14’’ or 1035x294x371mm) are a bit too big for my room. I have constructed the outline of the speakers from tin wood and put them in my room, and it sure looks large to me...
I know that there is no fixed rule on room size and speaker size, but does your guts say that I need to re-audition and maybe go for a floorstander like the Kef R300, Focal Aria 906, B&W CM5 S2, Monitor Audio Gold 200 or the Kef LS50 (albeit I do not read anywhere clearly whether my amp would have sufficient constant power to bring to most out of them)?
Unfortunately, where I live there is no shop / dealer that lets you audition at home. So, any opinions on my concern, short and long, are highly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Stijn