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In Reply to: RE: Im in really big trouble posted by The peleton on January 23, 2012 at 09:28:17:
I gotcha, and congratulations on the good fortune, seriously this is a great (and could be fun) problem to have. Well, Planar may not be the part of the Asylum you'll be spending time in for much longer, given that planars all tend to be big, um, planes! ;)
In a big bare room, with hard floors and so forth, it just might not work out to have a high-end system in there. Refit the garage and let the vehicles deal with the sun and rain? Or master bedroom - if the spouse is ok with the arraingement, and the room has decent sonics, a large Master bedroom can be a good place. Our previous home had the nice stereo system in there, nice flow-form couch, great relaxing listening area.
In a big hard room, a very nice directional conventional speaker system might fit the bill. We're all planar nuts here, and used to how room-dependant good planar sound is. Conventional box speakers can have the advantage that they are less sensitive to room and placement. Instead of trying to work with the room acoustics, try to minimize the effect by using a design with an intentionally small sweet spot. I could envision a small set of bookshelf, or even ceiling or wall-mounted speakers, carefully placed, with a chair right in the sweet spot.
A couple years back I in-home auditioned several pairs of inexpensive but nice bookshelf type speakers (envisioning a potential system which did not work out). All the designs were small, sealed designs with 5-6" woofers and dome tweeter. I was actually quite impressed with how good they sounded, properly set up, and sitting right in the sweet spot.
Specifically, the SVS SBS-02 (yes the subwoofer company!) speakers really impressed me with how detailed and neutral they were. Frankly they sound phenomenal (again, as long as I was sitting right smack dab in the sweet spot!). The little speakers dissapeared into a giant soundstage and just let the music come though. The room contributed very little, as they are monopoles, and sealed box design (no ports, and really not much bass below 60-80hz anyway). Very clean, directional, pure sound. Now, if the volume went up, or I got out of the sweet spot, it fell apart. And they could provide listenable but not 'room-filling' levels like we're used to with planars.
And that was for the princely sum of $250. I'm sure there are some SWEET sounding, high-quality little monitors out there in the 1-2k range. Anyway, enjoy! and best of luck monetizing your current system.
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