Jay
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Well, it's been a busy 4 months for me moving into a house in Westchester from my apartment in the city. I have yet to make any changes to my rig, but it will be changing soon. I'm hoping to use the collective wisdom of this group to help me along the way. The room is fairly large and will serve as our main living space with a dining area, sitting area, and tv / stereo setup. The room is 22' X 32' with a 10' opening to a sun room that is 13' x 18'. I may put up a wall to separate the rooms. Here are some pics:




My current plan is to put the equipment on a single width rack in the far corner left of the fireplace, the left speaker to the right of that and the right speaker to the right of the doorway that leads to a hall. I'm going to run the speaker wire through the floor into the basement an back up the other side to the rt speaker. There will be a small sofa with a couple of chairs where the dining table is (it's moving to the opposite wall). This is also a temporary couch in the picture as it will be moving to the sun room. A larger sofa, an 8x10 rug, and window shades are on the way with curtains coming at some point in the future. The fireplace is going to be modified with a 65" TV above that will be built in with an ability to hide it behind doors or something (still working on it).
So, the speakers will be ~16 feet apart and ~17 feet from listening position. There will be 5 feet or so behind the listening seat to the wall.
My questions are:
- Is this a setup that could sound good?
- Are there issues (other than cost) with 20+ foot long speaker cables?
- Ideally, I want to move to floor-standing speakers that ideally could be driven by my current 60 watt tube amp (at least for a little bit)
- I want floor-standers that look good (waf), and can image well bc they will be so far apart
- Speakers need to have removable grills as I have a baby on the way - want to be sure that I prying fingers don't poke at the woofers
- They also need to be able to be fairly close to the rear wall I can get the fronts out to about 30" before my wife starts protesting
Budget is $10-20k for speakers and I'm very open to used equipment. I love the NOLAs, but they will be going up for sale.
So far, I'm interested in hearing Nola KOs, TAD E1s, YG Kipod or Carmel, Sonus Faber Olympica, Revel Studio 2s, and maybe Magico S5s if by some miracle they pop up on the used market.
What do you think? Any and all advice is welcome! Also, I think I'll need some room treatments...any recommendations that look nice or have some architectural / funky appeal?
Thanks in advance,
Jay




My current plan is to put the equipment on a single width rack in the far corner left of the fireplace, the left speaker to the right of that and the right speaker to the right of the doorway that leads to a hall. I'm going to run the speaker wire through the floor into the basement an back up the other side to the rt speaker. There will be a small sofa with a couple of chairs where the dining table is (it's moving to the opposite wall). This is also a temporary couch in the picture as it will be moving to the sun room. A larger sofa, an 8x10 rug, and window shades are on the way with curtains coming at some point in the future. The fireplace is going to be modified with a 65" TV above that will be built in with an ability to hide it behind doors or something (still working on it).
So, the speakers will be ~16 feet apart and ~17 feet from listening position. There will be 5 feet or so behind the listening seat to the wall.
My questions are:
- Is this a setup that could sound good?
- Are there issues (other than cost) with 20+ foot long speaker cables?
- Ideally, I want to move to floor-standing speakers that ideally could be driven by my current 60 watt tube amp (at least for a little bit)
- I want floor-standers that look good (waf), and can image well bc they will be so far apart
- Speakers need to have removable grills as I have a baby on the way - want to be sure that I prying fingers don't poke at the woofers
- They also need to be able to be fairly close to the rear wall I can get the fronts out to about 30" before my wife starts protesting

Budget is $10-20k for speakers and I'm very open to used equipment. I love the NOLAs, but they will be going up for sale.
So far, I'm interested in hearing Nola KOs, TAD E1s, YG Kipod or Carmel, Sonus Faber Olympica, Revel Studio 2s, and maybe Magico S5s if by some miracle they pop up on the used market.
What do you think? Any and all advice is welcome! Also, I think I'll need some room treatments...any recommendations that look nice or have some architectural / funky appeal?
Thanks in advance,
Jay