Nearfield listening

I sit 7 ft from my 3 way front horn using 8 15in woofers in vert array 4 per front horn with comp mid horn and comp tweeter horns. Design integrated seemlessly even as close as 6ft away. ea is 350lbs ea. 6ft-h,46in-w,38in-d. Most large loudspeakers dont do well in nearfield or sudo nearfield like my set up. Since I design loudspeakers if I want large loudspeakers for small room close listening I can design construct my own.Nice thing about DIY or having loudspeakers custom built is one can have a near perfect match to room system budgets or listening preferance.

Based on Onhwy61's corrected definition, I don't listen in the nearfield, it's around 5-6 ft.

Same here. I'm at about 6ft. from the speakers.

Silverline Sonatinas work great for me in nearfield with 9 watts/side.

6 feet is not near-field and not quite far-field. The main reason to use big speakers is to get accurate bass reproduction and to achieve realistic higher SPL levels and a more natural presentation (think headphones most unnatural as no reverberant field and small near-fields as in between and large speakers in far-field as most natural sounding balance between primary and reverberant sound).

The main reason to sit near-field is to hear more primary signal and less room reflected response. Studios will often mix on near-fields (for precise mix decisions) and then use main monitors in far field for bass checks and to impress clients.