Speakers that sound great in terrible rooms

Tomic61 wrote: "amp + speaker + room +ear/brain = system"

Very well said!!  

By the way I’ve yet to hear a pair of the Larsens, but their innovative approach makes a lot of sense to me.  

Duke

and this goes back to something else I've noticed. I simply cannot ignore a room.

I can ignore the air conditioner more easily.

Those audiophiles who can hear the nuance of equipment in a bad room, you are amazing, because I can barely listen.

Smaller is often better with speakers in rooms with bad acoustics.

My wife's sunroom is pretty bad.   I've tried a lot of speakers in there but the tiny  Vanatoo Transparent 1 Encore speakers on Isoacoustic stands in there really shine.  I think the built in signal processing helps.

That’s why there are headphones.

I unfortunatwly have no personal experience with Ohm Walsh speakers (yet,) but I'm surprised no one else has mentioned them. (At least I didn't spot anyone mentioning them during a quick skim of the responses.) One of the most commonly praised aspects of the Ohm speakers is that not only are they one of the few speakers that sound good in live/untreated rooms, but they are actually meant for such rooms!