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Time for me to start thinking about upgrading.

Right now I have a mish-mash of equipment, 20 year old Sony mains, Infinity surrounds and a JBL center channel run by a Pioneer VSX-811s. I find the Pioneer running a 5.1 system to be a bit under powered, I have actually thrown it into a shut down with a DTS test disk at nominal volumes. It is set up with preouts so I thought I would keep the Pioneer and turn over the speaker powering to Emotiva.

The Sony's are to large for my better halfs liking so I'm looking for something smaller and less intrusive I was hoping the M22's would fit the bill.

Would 4ea M22's and 2ea QS8's paried with a VP150 fill a 27x25 room nicly?

Regards
Robb

I think we need to know a couple of things before we can answer.

Are you setting up as 5.1 with all 4 M22s as mains, or are you going to a 7.1 setup? How much of that space do you want to fill with sound?

That's a pretty big space. I don't think I'd use 4 M22s in any case, but 2 might work out with a good sub. I'd prefer to use M60s or M80s for that space, but that won't help you with the WAF.

Sorry, I should have clarified that in my other post.

7.1 Set-up
2 ea M22 for mains
2 ea M22 for surround back
2 ea QS8 for surround sides
1 ea VP150 for center channel

I do have a sub, a cheep little Quest that will also need replacing but I want to focus on that last.

Due to WAF factor as you call it *laugh* The suround backs will be at the back of the room on book shelves. The couch is in the middle of the room so there is equal distance from the mains to the listener and the surround backs to the listener. The surround sides will be slighly closer to the listener parallel to the couch.

I hope that makes sence.

Robb

As long as you have a good sub I think the M22s would work. I have them in an open main floor that is near the size (28x~20) of the room you are going to put them in and they work quite well on their own, no sub. The M80s of course just plain work no matter where they are, as long as you have the power behind them.

Have you looked at the hearing things forum for a possible audition in your area?

Looks like there is a person in St. Albert with the speakers I'm looking at.

Thanks for the tip

Robb

If you have the time for a road trip and he isn't available let me know.

That is a pretty big room, how loud do you plan to listen? For HT it will probably be fine, however, if you like to crank up some 2 channel music from time to time, you may want to consider m60's for the fronts. My room is bigger than yours, and my old 60's and 80's filled it nicely with killer bass and ample power, not sure the 22's would do as well.

I like movies to be nice a loud, I do listen to music from time to time.. I would say the split would be around 80/20 movies. Most of the time I stream MP3's through my Xbox to my rec'er so I don't have great quality 2 channel music to start with.

My great room is 30 feet long with dining area at one end that is 18 feet wide and living/theater at the other end with a triagular entry area that widens the room out to 27 feet at one end. The ceiling is 11 feet and there is both a doorway and a long serving bar into the kitchen.

My 6.1 set-up is a pioneer VSX-45, M22 mains, M2 surround back, QS8 surround sides, VP150 for center channel, and SVS 25-31 sub.

I have plenty of headroom for volume both for movies and music.

Seems to me that using 2 M22s for rear surrounds is a waste of good speakers. There is little rear content that I'm aware of.