whatz up with hi-end speakers near walls?


How many recent (disturbing) posts have there been regarding placing speakers(very good ones) inches away from walls? I realise there are living confinements,spouses,etc...but you to "create" this yourself in order to get audiophile quality sound...even in my small apt...I have monitors 4 ft into the room...if you dont have or want to sacrifice the room...no need to drop 1k on SPendors...go down to radioshack...and contrary to what others have posted...no speaker is designed to be almost flush with walls...none that I would like to own anyways...good sound is more so about placement than equipment...great sound is both....
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I have had a pair og ML Aeriusi's for two years and am still looking for the magic. Tough room. LF has a rear wall and a side wall. RF has a partial rear wall(doorway) and no side wall.

Everytime time I think I've got it right, the next CD says I was wrong.

This is a tough sport....:-)
I have had a pair og ML Aeriusi's for two years and am still looking for the magic. Tough room. LF has a rear wall and a side wall. RF has a partial rear wall(doorway) and no side wall.

Everytime time I think I've got it right, the next CD says I was wrong.

This is a tough sport....:-)
Seantaylor99 said it more eloquently than I...and if I came across as antagonistic that was not the intent...I am just baffled some of the recent placement posts...no need for me to get my undies in a bundle.....I will get off my soapbox...
Phasecorrect, thanks. I think it's easy to ruffle feathers when asking people why they wasted a bunch of money, even though they are perfectly within their rights to make poor purchasing decisions. Heck I wonder why people here in California buy 4x4 SUVs to drive to work and back. It's a strange world.
Hey, I just pulled mine out from 22" to 4' from the rear wall and they dissapered (B&W matrix 803s). I was going to post something about this today and I decided not to. I think there is good info on the Cardas web site if I remember correctly about speaker placement.