Speakers for a large vaulted room?

My room is not vaulted but it is 28 foot long and 20 foot wide plus it has a 9' ceiling with a 18" tray on top of that. Plus every corner opens up to a hallway, another room or a stairway upstairs (adding even more volume to fill.

I have had Genesis 501s with built in subs/amp and now I have Legacy Focus powered by a Legacy power amp for the stereo channels. I think it is 250 wpc into 4 ohms.

The legacy speakers are high efficiency and fill the room well. I have the speakers about 8 feet apart and my listning position is about 13' away from them. Sometimes when I am doing serious listning I pull the speakers from the wall which gets them about 11" from me.

I have not ever felt the need to add a sub or more power and the dynamics are great even with rock, classical or anything else I listen to.

Give the focus or whispers a try in the Legacy line up.

I have two listening rooms in upstairs rooms (in my home & cottage), but neither is as large as yours. Never the less, I've never had much luck using panels of any kind in those rooms. I just don't think dipoles lend themselves to angled side walls. I'd try shifting to a good dynamic speaker, not because of peak output, or sensitivity, but because I think you will have a much easier time getting integration with the room. Also, assuming it could be done, I'd consider setting up a near field listening set up turned sideways, with the speakers against one of the sloped walls, and you sitting against the other. This obviously wouldn't work with the tall Maggies, but a pair of short towers, or mini-monitors could be just the ticket set up that way! I wouldn't think in terms of "filling the space" so much as using the space to keep the room from getting in the way of the speaker/ear interface.
Cliff

I'm at a loss as to how noone has pointed out the total disconnect of comparison between Magnepan and PSB.

The issue, primary issue for me, is the day and night difference in presentation between the two speakers. That's fundamental to this whole issue.

Good listening,
Larry

Sonorous1,
You want to keep your current amp,then the advice from johnk and duke is right. You need efficient and easy load/drive speakers(minimum92-93db and load of at 6-8 ohms, the higher the better). Your amp will sing and come alive with this type of speaker, and avoids the chase for ever more powerful amplifier syndrome. There are many good dynamic speakers to provide excellent soundstage(so you don`t have to rely on panel speakers exclusively).

Hi Sean,

I've been trying to get in touch with you on HTS. Can you get back with me?