I am in search of a front 3 speakers for my home theater. Would M16/C25 work for home theater?
-Receiver Denon X8500
-Listening distance about 12feet
-Room dimensions 22'x14'x8'
-Max volume around -10db
My first though is to get the floor standing model F35/F36 but Revel is out of stock for the next 60 days or so (in black).
I just got 3 JBL 705P but 1 is defective and am considering going Revel instead.
Thoughts?
Here's my opinion, for what it's worth. At 12' and -10 MV, I think you'll be cutting it pretty close on clean output capability with the M16's. What I see most people fail to account for is that almost everyone is going to be using eq. If not full range, then at the very least below 300 Hz, and most likely *at least* 3-6 dB of boost in this range i.e. 300 Hz down to 80 Hz crossover to subs. So instead of 95 dB maximum output requirement(75 dB average plus 20 dB peaks), you need 98-101. I think you'll be hitting a lot of distortion and/or running out of power. I'd wait the 60 days and go with the towers so you have three woofers covering this range instead of one, and in a much larger cabinet. Also, what if you want to listen slightly louder? The towers probably give you this ability.
The online calculators some folks use are wildly inaccurate imo. They let you select multiple speakers to add SPL which isn't accurate since the SPL requirement is from *each* speaker and not all of them combined. They also usually give a huge boost in SPL for room gain, which only affects the lowest frequencies. Sensitivity is not spec'd at 100 or 80 Hz where room/boundary gain might give some SPL enforcement, but rather at higher frequencies where you won't get this boost. So calculating SPL capability based on speaker sensitivity, power, and listening distance should *not* use room/boundary gain factored into the calculation.
Looking at the 80-300 Hz distortion of my F36 towers at 11-12' distance at 90-95 dB, I *definitely* would not want to play at that level with a single 6.5" woofer in a small cab.
