What stereo speakers for a HUGE room?

[nordhaven]

What are a great pair of stereo loud speakers for a huge room? The room is 32'X32' (1,024sq-ft) with a vaulted cealing. The budget is $2,500-$5,000 for the pair.

Looking for sound quality here. I know I can get a pair of Cerwin Vega's to fill the room but I want quality sound.

 

[allsop4now]

Have you considered to use a subwoofer to handle the bass? What you "save" on not having speakers that go so deep, you can use on a good subwoofer. A subwoofer will fill the lower end better than most speakers.

 

[Joe Schmoe]

The Klipsch Heritage line, including Klipsshorns and Heresies, are designed to sound geat in really huge rooms. (IMO they are too bright in smaller rooms.)

 

[emorphien]

Just for music? I'd look for relatively efficient floorstanders.

 

[MDS]

You would need speakers that are highly efficient like the aforementioned Klipsch, a giant subwoofer, and a lot of amplification. This is a case where separates or a receiver (as a pre-pro) with large external amps would make sense.

 

[jcPanny]

Line Arrays

AV123 is working on a couple of line array speakers that might work well in your huge room. THe LS6 has 8 woofers and 6 planer tweets and the LS9 will have 12 woofers and 8 tweeters. These things are big, but they will play loud with very little distortion with the adequate amplification. The LS6 is in prototype stage with the 9 to follow.

 

[nordhaven]

What makes a speaker efficient?

JCpanny--Are the big floor standers you are talking about like the GR Reserch speaker kits?

 

[Wid]

Take a look at Axiom M80s

 

[jaxvon]

What makes a speaker efficient?

JCpanny--Are the big floor standers you are talking about like the GR Reserch speaker kits?

Speaker efficiency is the measurement of how much mechanical output can be had from a given electrical input. In other terms, how efficiently the motor converts electrical energy to mechanical.

I would recommend against Klipsch speakers. They are highly resonant and have terrible midrange coloration. You might like this sound, but it is *not* high fidelity, in the truest meaning of the term. I would suggest that you audition some Vandersteen speakers. They're not the most efficient, but they are high quality speakers that can handle some power. To get the most bass, though, you might look to supplement with stereo subwoofers. However, this could come at another time.

www.vandersteen.com

 

[InTheIndustry]

I can get you a great deal on.....

Canton Vento 809 DC
http://www.canton.de/en-produktdetail-vento-vento809dc.htm

Reviewed Here: http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/605canton/index.html

These are an incredible speaker from a great company. Beautiful to listen to. Beautiful to look at. They sound phenominal!

Efficiency has nothing to do with picking your speakers. At least not with the information you provided. You only need to worry about efficiency if you already have an amp and are trying to match speakers to it. Picking speakers first (which is almost always best) and then picking an amp & pre-amp to match is the way to go if you are looking for a serious 2 channel system.

 

[j_garcia]

What makes a speaker efficient?

It is sensitivity, not efficiency, technically speaking. A more sensitive speaker will play louder with the given power vs one with lower sensitivity. That is why Klipsch are recommended when loud is what you're after, they generally run sensitivity in the 97dB and higher range, with a normal speaker being somewhere around 90dB.

 

[zumbo]

http://www.tyleracoustics.com/linbrook.html

on sale

http://www.tyleracoustics.com/monthly_specials.html

 

[B5I8]

http://www.tyleracoustics.com/linbrook.html

I second that .

 

[nordhaven]

What else is out there for horn-loaded speakers? From what I have read it seems they do well in very large rooms.

 

[zumbo]

http://www.tyleracoustics.com/pro_dynamics.html

 

[Matt34]

http://www.tyleracoustics.com/linbrook.html

on sale

http://www.tyleracoustics.com/monthly_specials.html

Those are nice!

155lbs each!

 

[highfihoney]

AV123 is working on a couple of line array speakers that might work well in your huge room. THe LS6 has 8 woofers and 6 planer tweets and the LS9 will have 12 woofers and 8 tweeters. These things are big, but they will play loud with very little distortion with the adequate amplification. The LS6 is in prototype stage with the 9 to follow.

I have to second jcpanny's reccomendation on line array speakers for a huge room,while i have not yet heard the new line array's from AV123 i will & if i like them as much as my current mcintosh line array's then i will own them.

There is nothing like the presentation of a good line array,after the first time i heard a line array speaker system i was sold & started looking for a good set that very day.

Ive started reading up on the new av123 line array's & they look impressive as he!! to me,i cant wait to hear a pair.

 

[j_garcia]

What else is out there for horn-loaded speakers? From what I have read it seems they do well in very large rooms.

That would generally be due to their very high sensitivity. JBL also has some horn style speakers.

 

[emorphien]

It is sensitivity, not efficiency, technically speaking. A more sensitive speaker will play louder with the given power vs one with lower sensitivity. That is why Klipsch are recommended when loud is what you're after, they generally run sensitivity in the 97dB and higher range, with a normal speaker being somewhere around 90dB.

True about sensitivity vs efficiency, but so many people use them interchangeably and I didn't want to insinuate anything about the speakers emotional stability

 

[nordhaven]

Those PD80's look bad ***! I like bi-wireable stereo speakers. Are those midrange 10" woofers paper also?

http://www.tyleracoustics.com/Images/speakers/Pro speakers/pd80_lg.jpg