I've been vacillating between finding speakers that can make good use of the quantity of power my Adcom GFA-555II has to even the idea of putting the amp up for sale and trying low power but high-end.

Right now, the Adcom sounds nice with my Focal Cobalt 806S bookshelf speakers and so I thought I'd just replace them with the first pair of Cobalt 826S towers I could find. I figured surely I'd love 'em. Well...as it turns out...I didn't like the sound of the midrange. So then I got the idea I liked a pair of Dynaudio Audience 82 that a seller about an hour's drive away has. But I've read they're meant for mid- to large-sized rooms...it makes sense...dual 8-inch woofers, handles something like 300 watts at 4 Ohms. Thus this thread.

However...a home theater store called MODIA has a shop near me and they have the Audience line in old inventory (they don't sell them in the store, anymore) and they said they could bring over any of them for a listen. That would save me the hour drive each way and I could try out the smaller speakers from the Audience line. So given the 12 x 15 x 8 room, now maybe I'll forget the 82 and see if MODIA will set up a pair of 62 in a small listening room.

But continuing to vacillate, I see there are some nice ideas in my bookshelf-for-less-than-$1,000 thread.