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Those Sound Labs speakers are huge. I’ll bet they do sound good. That is a nice view out your window too. Vego99, I started with 1.7’s which were nice and then upgraded after a year to the 3.7’s which are really nice. I have to push mine back up again the wall which is easy to do but gets to be a pain. Mine are not spiked. Someday I hope to move them to a dedicated room in the basement. My bay window is on a side wall so I can’t comment about that. I would also suggest a subwoofer or two depending on what music you like to listen to. My room is something like 20 foot by 17 foot. Not all that large. My two MC601 mono blocks have plenty of power but I normally don’t listen over 60 watts. There again it depends on what your listening habits are. Maggies are very nice speakers for the money and I personally don’t think they are that fussy of a speaker to set up. I normally pull my out about 4 to 5 foot also. ~Mike |
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One vote for Maggies from here too!!!
If I would be thinking about buying Maggies now, I would get 3.7s with DWM bass panels. There are good reports about them working great at CES. That would give change to adjust bass good for the room. I agree, that the most important thing with Maggies is to put enough space behind speakers. Then they just come to live! |
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As everyone has said the secret seems to be to get the panels deep out into the room if possible... mine are 8ft out from the front wall and the listening area is then a further 8ft with 5 ft behind to the rear wall with floor to ceiling soft curtains on front and rear walls as well as one of the sides. Like Rayoo I have mine close to the side walls (1ft) and this isn't proving an issue. I find I can use that distance to the side walls to better fine tune the bass/midrange balance a bit. Is that opening into the dining room behind you large... if you could open that wall right up then you might find you have a very sweet listening setup in that room. The panels would look great either side of the bay window. I've never had to deal with a bay window so not sure how it would work for you acoustically but its certainly nice to be able to look out while you're listening. It's a beautiful room Vego and would look very fine with Cherry! G |
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Hey guys thanks for all the advise and compliments. I have been prepping the room for repainting and while doing so I have been taking your tips and tried to visualize how I can set the room up. Due to the restraints with the room I just cant see Maggies working the room is just too small. ( I should not have bought an old brick victorian! lol) The room does connect to the dining room and while if I was still single I would consider opening up the door way and making a great listening space however that will not fly.
Now.... While my initial idea was to put my 2 channel system in the front room and use the back room for TV and Movies, I have been hinting with the idea of Moving the TV room to the front and making the back room the 2 channel area. While I have been given the thumbs up I have my doubts due to the fact that the room works great for surround sound and the front room wont be as good. I still have some thinking of what I am going to do, worse comes to worse if Maggies wont work with the space and keeping the Mrs. happy I may just have to look in to another less intrusive speaker. Maybe I can find a pair of Used B&W 802's or something. I have attached a couple pics of the back room of the house. The length of that room is 23' -e Last edited by vego99; 01-28-2013 at 06:03 PM. |
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Vego99,
My room is very similar to yours. The Maggies ended up 2-1/2 feet from the back wall. My speakers are mounted on the wall across from the settee (left wall in your photo). One speaker is 3-1/2 from the wall where the bay window is and the other is 10' from the other side wall. I have my subwoofer beside that speaker, so it's almost centered on that long wall, away from the corners. The setup works really nice. Maggies are not that difficult to set up. Last edited by Niles; 02-06-2013 at 08:15 PM. Reason: Spelling |
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