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Building a speaker system in a small room (I have no idea what I'm doing)

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evanft:
Soooooooooooo I'm thinking of turning an empty room in my house into a dedicated listening room. The problem is that it's a very small square room with wood floors. We're talking something like 10'x9'x8' here. Unfortunately, this room is my only real option in my house for a listening room.

My current headphone is the HD800. I'd want to get as close to those in perfomance as possible, especially in regards to resolution and detail retrieval.

My budget for the speakers, amps, and related accessories would probably be in the $5,000 range. I've done some googling, but I'm still not sure what I should be looking at.

Is there any point in pursuing this, or am I so limited by my room size and shape that I should just stick to headphones?

Armaegis:
That's bigger than some mixing studios I've been in...

First of all, what's the furniture layout going to be? Will you be at a desk by the wall, or will you put speakers at one side and a couch on the other? TV in the middle? Speakers against the wall, or out from it?

You'll definitely want some acoustic panels and bass traps for the room.

evanft:
No TV, no desk. Just speakers, listening chair, and electronics rack.

I measured the room. It's smaller than I thought. 10'x9'x8'

Ringingears:
My first thought is your room dimensions. It's nearly square. Could cause you some standing wave issues in the bass area. Will make some bass notes stand out more than others. There are several people here that can help you with this.  You may want to experiment with speakers at a diagonal to your listening position. I tried this in a room of similar dimensions and it seem to work fairly well. Good luck. Getting it to sound just the way you want may take some time and lots of experimentation. I have found that an accurrate laser "tape measure" is a real time saver when doing speaker placement measurements. 

Any of you sound folks out there have a good book to recommend?

evanft:
Yeah, I'm thinking this is gonna get complicated.

I have the opportunity to pick up a pair of Martin Logan SL3 speakers for ~$1400. Are these any good? They're probably too big and I have no idea how they sound, but the guy is very local.

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