A decision - thoughts appreciated

I am in part way though a major restoration of my house and would really like your thoughts on the setup for my kitchen/dining area which is a 18m long, 6m wide and 4.3m high space, with mostly hard surfaces (paster walls, ceramic tile floor and a fair bit of glass).

I am am considering BL5s for the space - given the room and my music is all digital (mostly 320kbps) through a playmaker am I going to make the best of BL5s or are the other speakers I should be considering? Very much appreciate your views.

Pushkin,

I have just opened a thread myself and in it we discuss the merits and weaknesses of the BL5. From owning the BL5 myself i would say that BL5 would be overkill for a kitchen/dining area where the most you will use is 320kbps via a playmaker. You also need to consider all the hard surfaces in a ktichen with it's hard floors - lots of echoes and lack of absorbent material will ruin the sound no matter which speaker you use. I would say that a BL9 with a good blend of quality and power would be more than adequate for background music whilst dining.

That is a big space though! I can see why you are thinking BL5s. Bit dominating though and I agree amount the reflective surfaces causing brightness.

A lot of speaker evenly spread in the area will give a shorter distance from speaker to ear, reducing problems with echoes from hard surfaces and standing waves.

 

 

Thank you all for your thoughts. Sounds like the suggestion may be to consider BL9s. Could four BL3s with a BL11 work in terms of distributing sounds around this large space?