26 feet wide is huge. My room is around that size, but in length. Width-wise, my room is about half that size.
Yeah, that's what I am talking about!
The big, wide Von Schweikert just take up space better.
When you get to the quality of really good speakers like the RM 40's, the Von Schweikert, and the B&W 801's, it sometimes comes down to purely aesthetics.
From a listening point of view, and this is my PERSONAL opinion, I like the Matrix 801's the very best.
But. they are almost stupid looking in my wide roof, looking like little r2/d2 clones, LOL
Plus, they won't play loud enough for my tastes w/o activating the APOC protection circuitry.
I currently have a SVS Ultra Subwoofer, and they barely "make it over" it.
I have 2 monster 9.5 cu ft corner mounted subwoofers being built using the 15" TC Sounds LMS drivers!
They will look like the bottoms of Klipschorns, designed to go into the corners.
These TC Sounds LMS 15" Woofers are bad mammyjammers with 36 mm X Max each!
LEAP predicts 3 db down at 20hz w/o any room gain!
In a sealed box too!
No way the little 801's are going to provide enough output for what I want.
The Von Schweikert are 94 db efficient, and will play LOUD w/o strain, or need of a big amp.
So will the RM 40's, if given enough power.
The subwoofers I am having built are POWER HUNGRY.
The one SVS Ultra I currently have is using a bridged Ashly FET 500, about 1200 watts into 4 ohms.
When I play the RM 40's and it, it causes my lights to flicker and dim!
It will only "get worse" with the twin TC Sounds 15's and their 36 mm X Max!
They need POWER, and Lot's of it to play to full excursion.
In MY situation, EFFICIENCY is what my main speakers must have.
Brian told me he might come out with some higher efficiency woofers for the RM 40's.
Of course, the "penalty" one would pay for this efficiency increase will be some loss of Low Bass.
NOT a consideration for me, because not even a pair of RM 40's could hope to approach one corner mounted 12" SVS Ultra subwoofer in sheer room shaking ability, much less a Pair of TC Sounds 15" LMS Flagship drivers in monster sized boxes.
I have suggested to Brian he may want to think about making a VMPS RM 40 SHE, or Super High Efficiency, for those of us in impossibly big rooms using subwoofers anyway.
The ribbons themselves have plenty of efficiency, but the woofers are "power hungry".
Therefore, the ribbons must give up their high efficiency capabilities to blend with the woofers.
A design decision, and it works, in many, and most rooms, just not in mine.
Kevin here in Tampa owns RM 40's driven with only 100 watts of Kora Tube Power and has NO Need for subwoofers.
