Who puts their speakers right up against the back wall and why?

Mine are near the wall and one in a corner and i had a complete holographic sound in my 2 listening positions with a sound completely encompassing me and detached from the speakers locations... Why ?

Is it the magic of my speakers design ? No they are good but not the absolute best there is....

It is active acoustic controls....


Because passive room treatment does not cancel the bad topology of the room but active controls can.... I know i create my own devices to do so right now for the last one, today, also at peanuts costs.... But anyway nobody will believe that, i dont believe it myself, except when i listen to my music like i do now...And nobody can come and listen to it...

I only wrote this post to give hopes to some who dont have any money and dream about Hi-FI.... Try listening experiments and create your own devices.... My ideas are free to pick on my thread .....



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In my small bedroom setup I have no choice but to have them against the wall, but I also don't have speakers that have rear ports, either.

The venerable Bose 901s.

Otherwise, room constraints often keep the speakers too close to the walls. If only we all had man/woman caves.

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The farther your drivers, especially woofers, are from any wall or surface, the better. Booming low frequencies are impossible to absorb. Low frequencies are omnidirectional. Ever heard of ASC Tube Traps? They are the only product that absorb bass. And they ain't cheap. A 60Hz 15 inch trap is about $800. And you need 4 of them. My B&W Nautilus 802's would make any Klipsch sound like a Klipsch. The only worse sounding speaker was/is the Bose 901 Series III. Crappy sounding headphones too. When Nelson Pass was with Threshold he designed The Acoustic Shadows. Round circular units behind your loudspeakers. Had an mic and would play the low end out of phase. Lot of trouble to get rid of booming bass. Cost $2,000 in 1978.