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Room size and speakers - stijjgv - 21-Feb-2015
Is there some kind of "guideline" for how big a room should be before it is to big for a speaker?
My room is 4 meters wide by 6 meters long, both the Kef Ref 1 & Kef Ref 3 are within my budget.
So which one should be best for me? In both cases they will be powered by the Devialet 200.
The reason why I ask this here is because a lot of people have more experience then me in this area.
I live in Belgium and here you never have the option to take something home for auditioning.
RE: Room size and speakers - f1eng - 21-Feb-2015
That is quite a reasonable sized room. If you want to listen loud you will need an efficient pair of speakers.
There is no hard rule since speakers vary hugely in sensitivity, but small speakers are always low sensitivity and big ones almost almost always higher sensitivity. The Ref 3 is 2.5dB louder for the same power than the Ref 1.
The Ref 1 has the same specified sensitivity as the LS50. I have a pair of LS50s and I think I may find them on the limit in a room of 4x6 but I like to listen to orchestral music at typical auditorium loudness, which is quite a lot louder than most people listen.
Also the Ref 3 should work before SAM correction limits bass output to at least 3dB louder than the Ref 1, since it has 2 of the same bass units.
RE: Room size and speakers - Pim - 21-Feb-2015
I have 2 adjoining rooms of 3.6m x 3.6m so only a tad smaller than your. I'm running my D200 into Dynaudio C1's but if I had the space I would definitely get the C2's. If the difference between Ref 1 and Ref 3 is as big as between C1 and C2 then you want to go for the Ref 3 for sure.