I'm attempting to upgrade my living room setup as my basement "theater" is seriously outclassing the small Definitive speakers I've been using upstairs.
I have Sierra RAAL towers in the basement, and I'm quite find of their high end. This made it immediately tempting to grab the Sierra-2EXs for the living room, however, the MLP there is well below tweeter height and I'm afraid the vertical dispersion of the RAALs just won't cut it.
For perspective, in this room, the tweeter height of a typical bookshelf would be around 75". MLP is roughty 11' from there. I can tilt the speakers forward a bit, but not much at all - perhaps 10-15 degrees at most.
If this sound ridiculous, it is. But while I essentially have carte blanch in the basement, WAF is in full effect in the living room. The speakers can change, but their locations cannot. Something with strong vertical dispersion would be a must here. Would that totally eliminate the 2EXs from contention?
The other rub is that I'd like a reasonably matching center. I only have about 7.5" in depth available, and because it would be sitting against a wall, rear ports aren't an option.
To help broaden the field a little bit, I do not require lots of low end (I have a sub) and the speakers in this room will never be played super loud - nothing approaching reference levels for any length of time - so I don't require tons of SPL.
This is being done primarily for music listening purposes, but decent moderate-volume HT performance is imporant as well. I'd like superb high end, something along the lines of the RAALs, as well as good midrange / dialogue intelligibility. Budget for LRC: Less than $2500 please, and much less is even better.
Thanks in advance.
I have Sierra RAAL towers in the basement, and I'm quite find of their high end. This made it immediately tempting to grab the Sierra-2EXs for the living room, however, the MLP there is well below tweeter height and I'm afraid the vertical dispersion of the RAALs just won't cut it.
For perspective, in this room, the tweeter height of a typical bookshelf would be around 75". MLP is roughty 11' from there. I can tilt the speakers forward a bit, but not much at all - perhaps 10-15 degrees at most.
If this sound ridiculous, it is. But while I essentially have carte blanch in the basement, WAF is in full effect in the living room. The speakers can change, but their locations cannot. Something with strong vertical dispersion would be a must here. Would that totally eliminate the 2EXs from contention?
The other rub is that I'd like a reasonably matching center. I only have about 7.5" in depth available, and because it would be sitting against a wall, rear ports aren't an option.
To help broaden the field a little bit, I do not require lots of low end (I have a sub) and the speakers in this room will never be played super loud - nothing approaching reference levels for any length of time - so I don't require tons of SPL.
This is being done primarily for music listening purposes, but decent moderate-volume HT performance is imporant as well. I'd like superb high end, something along the lines of the RAALs, as well as good midrange / dialogue intelligibility. Budget for LRC: Less than $2500 please, and much less is even better.
Thanks in advance.