My first post. This topic inspired me to get an account and contribute something.
Just picked up some like-new 10-month old La Scala 2's for the basement. I told my wife ahead of time they were "about 2X bigger" than the Heresy 3's in our family room. She knew something was fishy when the truck dropped off a 500lb pallet in my driveway. The LS2's come in four boxes - two for the tops and two for the dog houses. I was able to carry the tops downstairs easily, but I'm telling you, the dog houses are the heaviest densest two-foot cubed box I ever tried to maneuver with a dolly. It was a workout. So make sure your wife has actually seen them in person, not just a picture. Or don't - your call. After the initial surprise, my wife doesn't mind them because they are in a decent sized basement home theater. If she had to look at them every day like the H3's, it would be a different story.
My room is about 17x17x8.5', carpet floors, loud walls and ceiling - no curtains. The LS2's are 10' apart on-center, slightly toed in (maybe 20 degrees) so they would come to an intersection about 5' behind me outside of my house - i.e. behind the couch against the opposite outside wall. My couch is about 14-15 feet away from the speakers. I've tried heavier toe-in's deeper into corners but I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. (At 45 degrees, those sharp corners are really sticking out far.) I might be giving up some stereo imaging at my couch in favor of filling the entire room with sound better. Not sure - still playing.
I've got a couple of subs but I cut them off at 60hz - the LS2's have better bass than expected in my room. Anything higher and the subs muddy-up the LS's bass IMHO. I do turn the bass tone control to 2-o'clock on my HT receiver and send all the bass and LF effects to both the LS's and subs. Movies sound great - had to enable a setting on the receiver to turn down the LS2's minus 10db when playing movies because they were so efficient.
For two-channel, I disable all DSP effects and stream music through a Shiit Bifrost Uber. The LS's handle everything above 60hz and the subs take over below 60hz. Other than the bass tone control at 2 o'clock, I do some minor digital equalization: ~2db increase at 1-1.2 kHz and ~2db decrease from about 6.5-8 kHz. Sound is awesome.
In your room at 8' away, think about it. Put both of your KG 5.5's side-by-side in one speaker location, and then slide them 8" further into the room, increase the toe-in, and you have one La Scala. I'm not saying it won't work. If it is a dedicated listening room and you can listen close to the same level as the squawker, you're good. I don't think there is a near field listening issue unless this puts you are a really sharp angle to the tweeters and squawkers.
Are you able to listen to them?
