Speaker Recommendations for "Bright" Room

[mrm081561]

My wife and I have just moved into a new apartment and we will be purchasing a HT system. The living room is 20 X 20 with hardwood floors. There is one opening and the ceiling is 12.5 feet high. It is a very "Bright" room: we recently bought Axiom speakers (with M60 towers) and it is way to bright. We are going to half to return all of the speakers).

The only component we have bought is the receiver, which is a Yamaha 5850.

We are considering the following for fronts:

1) Klipsch RF-5s or RF-7s
2) Aperion 633 Tower Speakers or Aperion 522 PTs
3) Polk RTi8s or Polk RTi10s or Polk RTi12s

We would also purchase a subwoofer (except, perhaps, if we went with the Aperion 522 PTs [they have subwoofers built into them] which probably would be an SVS 20-39PC-Plus subwoofer.

Whatever brand of fronts we get will also buying the same company's best center and surround speakers.

Comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Marc

 

[Buckeyefan 1]

Mark,

The Klipsch and Polks won't be any less bright than your Axioms. Especially a horn tweeter in the Polk! The Yamaha receivers are a tad on the bright side, but you can tailor the highs down with the flexibility of the Yamahas. You can also adjust your M60 towers to lessen the treble by cantering them inward a little more or less. Speaker placement, as well as internal eq adjustment can really make any set of speakers sound horrible or very good. A bright room is tough to overcome. An area rug, a wall tapestry, or window treatments will make huge differences. I wouldn't give up on your Axioms just yet. My room is extremely "dead." I have the exact opposite problem you have. With Denon's internal eq and careful speaker placement, I was able to overcome that issue with a little time and patience.

 

[3db]

Change the room, not the speakers or receiver.

My wife and I have just moved into a new apartment and we will be purchasing a HT system. The living room is 20 X 20 with hardwood floors. There is one opening and the ceiling is 12.5 feet high. It is a very "Bright" room: we recently bought Axiom speakers (with M60 towers) and it is way to bright. We are going to half to return all of the speakers).

The only component we have bought is the receiver, which is a Yamaha 5850.

We are considering the following for fronts:

1) Klipsch RF-5s or RF-7s
2) Aperion 633 Tower Speakers or Aperion 522 PTs
3) Polk RTi8s or Polk RTi10s or Polk RTi12s

We would also purchase a subwoofer (except, perhaps, if we went with the Aperion 522 PTs [they have subwoofers built into them] which probably would be an SVS 20-39PC-Plus subwoofer.

Whatever brand of fronts we get will also buying the same company's best center and surround speakers.

Comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Marc

The problem is your room and not yor receiver or amp. I suspect that every speaker/receiver combo you will put in there will sound bright. If they don't, they will sound unually dark and will not satisfy you in your next home.
The first thing I would do is buy a nice area rug and place it on the floor. Secondally, hang quilts on the wall, dress up the window with curtains.

The Yamahas are not the bright receivers they once were and Axioms are know for their brightness.

Good luck

 

[Tom Andry]

I have an all Axiom HT in a VERY bright room and this is what I did. Sounds great!

 

[3db]

Excellent man.

Will reread this post again and again . Good job

I have an all Axiom HT in a VERY bright room and this is what I did. Sounds great!

 

[bray]

Audition some Rockets

I too am a very happy Axiom M60 owner, so me recomending Rockets (if you have seen some of the wars) is really no small thing.
Being very obsessed about audio, I have listened to almost every speaker on the market in the past six months. I had the chance to hear some Rocket RS 1000s in possibly the most reflective (brightest) room I've ever seen or heard. Huge vaulted cement ceiling, cement floors, walls and stairs. These speakers (RS1000s) sounded wonderful in that room. The soundstage was incredible and they looked fantastic. The only downside I heard was in detail. Not terrible, but compared to the M60s (in my room) there just didnt seem to be as much, IMO.
Overall (IN MY OPINION) if I had a hard, bright or reflective room I would give the Rockets a serious look (as well as many others).
Good Luck

 

[rschleicher]

If you are just moving in and don't have furniture yet, you will find that just adding the sofa and/or chairs at the listening position will cut down on the brightness of the room a lot. Hardwood floors are not quite as bad as a ceramic/porcelain tile (or stone) floor, but they're close, so the next biggest impact will probably be from adding an area rug. After that you can play around with putting things on walls, etc., although if you have a textured dry-wall it is probably not too bad.