floorstand

Hi, I recently bought an AV receiver Marantz Cinema 50 and my next step is to narrow the choice of floor standing speakers. I like the warm tuning, not shoutiness in mids, not sibilance, not piercing trebles, that would in combination cause fatigue. When it comes to headphones, my p/reference...

I am considering to upgrade from bookshelves to my first pair of tower speaker (3-way, e.g. Revel f206, Kef R7). I am sitting 2m away from my speakers. I would like to keep this listening distance. Would the short listening distance raise any problems? I might have heard/ read that 3-way tower...