> That means I can't have deeper walls to accomodate deep cabinets What matters for a cabinet is that it has the designed volume to load the drive unit, contains absorption material and is rigid. So a wide and not particularly deep cabinet should be fine but it would almost certainly mean having to make one.
> and rooms with lots of right angles. Parallel walls are usually bad not good because of distinct standing waves leading to a strongly uneven room response. > While I'm working within the constraints above, is it unrealistic to hope that > under these constraints I'd get something appreciably better than that? Flush mounting an ugly $200 "studio monitor" adjusted for this location would give you good sound for your budget and without much messing about. Mounting on the wall on brackets will still give good sound for about the same price, will be more flexible should seating positions change but is uglier. A step down in sound quality but up in looks would be to use $200 home loudspeakers with wooden cabinets and passive crossovers. Another step down in sound quality and up in looks would be purpose designed in wall speakers. I know almost nothing about the market but a 2 minute google suggested specialist prices rather than mass produced consumer prices but I may have looked at the wrong products. If this is the case and you can handle the extra messing about you might be better off buying the "studio monitors", scrapping the cabinets and putting the works in a purpose made acoustically treated rigid hole of exactly the same internal volume. The trade-off between sound quality, looks, flexibility and amount of messing about is obviously a decision for you. Judging exactly what you are trading in terms of sound quality would also seem difficult although popping into a music shop and listening to their bottom end monitors might help. -- honestguv ------------------------------------------------------------------------ honestguv's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13734 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44880 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
