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Small Room Speakers

The wife and I recently downsized to a much smaller house. My former listening room was rather large and well suited by B&W 803 D's. The new room is much smaller so its probably time to consider some smaller speakers.
The components the new speakers would be paired with are a McIntosh C245 with a pair of McIntosh MC402's. My prime listening tastes are blues, both acoustic and electric.
I'm still prone to louder volumes (too many years of racing motorcycles and cars)and I tend like a crisp sound. I don't know if "studio monitors" is where I should be looking or not. I fully intend to audition any alternatives, but am not sure where to start looking.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
kneedrager
elizabeth
6,726 posts
 
Agree the speakers you have should be no problem in a smaller space.
The onlyy issue might be they take up too much room?
OR, the bass travels through the walls too far, (if a condo or apt)
Is the bass is too much once you actually get intothe new place, then other choices might be appropriate. But right now i would just stick with what you have.
I had some big speakers in sl=mall spaces andno issues.
Right now I have Magnepan 3.6s in an 11' by 28' space. no issues. (and could easily see getting 20.7s in here)
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tbromgard
787 posts
 
I like my small speakers: Usher 718's
xenaudio
10 posts
 
I think Jaybo is right. You like what you have. Why not just try it first given it is not that big of a floorstander anyway. Also, B&W is not an overly bass heavy speaker. It may make better sense to get rid of one of the 402's; unless you need it to heat your house.
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mofimadness
4,152 posts
 
If I ever have to downsize to a smaller room, two speakers that would be on my short list would be the Totem Mani-2 Sigs and the Totem Model One Sigs.
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