The speaker will be mounted on stands. I thought maybe the bookshelf speakers mounted on stands can be tucked at the corners instead of 2 floor standing speakers that stand in the middle of one wall.
I like the PSB Image 5T to a certain extent. Would prefer to have more details if possible.
Any audio retailers nearby...if so go and have a listen. I am a bit perplexed by your answer around placement. Shouldn't put nearly any speaker in the corner.
So you work every day they are open. Sounds like you don't want to go and listen and prefer if we do the shopping for you.
I can never understand this kind of thread.
Sounds like you are unsatisfied with your present speakers and are shopping for new ones in a way that all but guarantees that you will be unsatisfied with the next ones as well.
If you can afford to take an afternoon off, venture out and listen at the local hifi stores.
We can list a whole bunch of nice standmounts in all different price ranges and for all types of music however we can't tell you whether you will like them.
Of course I will take time off to listen when I have narrow down to a few. I wish I can afford to take time off to listen to many many speakers, if I am that good financially I willl take a week off to listen at 5 high end hifi shop (1 each day).
If I only listen at big box stores, I will probably miss out some good speakers.
I do not ask the community here to shop for me but just provide some ideas then I will begin my listening.
That's a big room for a small speaker to fill. Unfortunately your amp isn't quite up to the Totem Rainmaker or that would be a first choice. It's also over budget. Next choice might be the Rega RS1...won't go real loud but it's very open in the area that you want...also the Totem Dreamcatcher might work.
I actually have a 16 x 20 room and have a casual listening system in it tnat I enjoy. In general I like my speakers to be driveable by reasonable easy to access power levels ( 8 ohm speakers usually essentially) and that arent too finicky about placement ( this eliminating Thiels in general as an example. Although its hard to find full range quality speakers these days that can do it all, I still am not real big on integrating subs with bookshelfs for 2 channel listening - its tough to get live sound authenticity ( Hone Theater is another story).
Anyway, the Totem recommendations are interesting and they are made in Canada. Depending on your standards, I like Ascend over Axiom, but the Axiom bookshelf offerings ARE worth a listen ( this is a tweeter/high end preference issue in my opinion). Do a,ittle googling - both allow for in home demos.
The Silverline Minuet is my current favorite in the "bookshelf at reasonable money" class. Naim has some nice offerings which I have also demoed, but power takes a bit more center stage with them. Anyone, thats a few speaker recs for you.
Spoke to some salesmen, my Viso 2 seems to be the limiting factor (unable to drive some speakers well - like the totem).
I bought the NAD Viso 2 (integrate receiver & dvd player) because it is visually nice for the living room. This is my 1st compromise, now I think I have to continue to compromise for the speakers.
Correct PS. You need to look for speakers that your amp can drive. There aren't alot of speakers that will be served well by that amp..you're looking at very efficient ones like Paradigm Monitor series (which you already have better than) and speakers such as that.
Honestly I think you are about where you are going to land given your limitations. Again the Rega R1 or RS1'a would have more life and are easy to drive but I doubt they would have the bass you need...only you can tell.