hi
@dougi i hope you are happy and content with the lintons by now as your measurements show decent performance with nothing broken out of the ordinary. i am presently considering the lintons in my modestly treated 3.8 x 5.4m size dedicated HT room which is significantly a smaller area than yours. i am presently using revel m16s for mixed stereo music and HT fronts duty and i must say they are immensely good! perhaps their only known fault if its a fault at all is that their measured bass boost as per ASR review can manifest itself as boomy in some recordings if i had to nitpick but its otherwise generally a good thing in overall use.
my intent for considering the lintons:
1. the performance benefit of a 3-way speaker and better, deeper bass with the 8in woofer with larger volume cabinet.
2. i hope it will not exhibit the same boomy nature as the revel m16s in my room.
3. i hope these will fare well without any EQ and subwoofer augmentation since they shall be placed well into the room away from the walls.
4. amplification is a NAD C326BEE since i only have a small room and this one has decent low impedance drive capability.
the speakers are presently being demo’d and inspected by my local retailer as i allowed him to check for any flaws. funny he remarked how off it sounded out of the box! bass was nonexist as with all the dynamics on day1. day2 according to him was an immensely different experience. everything is falling into place and such… as a non-believer of break-in BS i just took his words with a huge grain of salt. although it had me thinking since he claims never to have encountered such a remarkable change in performance from any speaker he has unboxed. oh well had it not been for covid19 i would have savored that experience myself!
i shall be taking the lintons home anytime soon when my sked allows. good thing about my dealer is the return policy should i find it ill fitting with my listening room. it has very big shoes in the form of revel m16 performance. looking forward to your inputs sir!