... now looking to build some new speakers.
We can help you find the perfect speaker for that room, both online through AudioCircle and in person through our small but friendly Tucson Audiophile group. Our group is so casual I can't even call it a club but we have been meeting together since 2017 and have listened to a lot of speakers. We have opinions, oh boy do we have opinions, based on personal experience.
One of our members has a room as large as yours with the mighty Luxman 509x integrated amp and the PS Audio DirectStream MK2 DAC with Joseph Audio Perspective2 speakers and a pair of Salk/Rythmik subs. An excellent system but the room is to large for both the speakers and the dual subs, the sound is swallowed up.
Another member has the new Magnepan 2.7i speakers, a single REL G2 Gibraltar sub, Pass XA25 amp and ANK (Audio Note Kit) 5.1 Signature DAC. The REL sub blends perfectly with the Maggies, it's like they were made for one another. His room is a little small, I would like to hear the Maggies in your room.
Our mad scientist member made or rebuilt all his electronics including the custom electronics for his reel-to-reel tape player. He has 100's of master tape copies (the reels that were sent to record pressing plants). The sound of these analog master tape copies is phenomenal and beats every other medium, even my super hi-res direct feed digital downloads from
Sound Liason. The speakers are the Nola Metro Grand Reference speakers which are amazing, especially playing classical music.
I use a single REL G1 MkII Reference sub, it was their top of the line until the new No.31 and No.32 Reference subs were introduced. Based on my experience with the REL G2 (my old sub) and G1 MkII and comparing their sound to the Rythmik subs, your room will need two REL No.31 subs. Music really doesn't open up, both physically and in recordings until your speakers can reproduce low level ambient sounds like echos down to 15 Hz. Even though REL subs do bass quite well, they do space even better.
GR Research has some of the best speaker kits available but no matter how they are built they still look utilitarian with a look only audio nerds can love.
By the way, your room is beautiful.
