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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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phasecorrect OP
2,013 posts
 
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...
seandtaylor99
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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.
bigkidz
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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.
stuartbranson
183 posts
 
You're wrong. It's been said already in Lugnut's post but my Linn Ninkas are designed to be close to the wall. They are not a ported design and the close-to-wall design is to support the bass. If you don't believe me I can send you the Linn literature.
hifiho
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Any loudspeaker with side-firing woofers (more common than ever these days), are designed to be coupled as closely as possible with the wall, to reinforce low frequency output. These designs are more commonly narrow in width, but deep so that the mids and tweeters are not close to the wall.

My NHT 3.3's are almost touching the wall behind them, but the face of the speaker cabinet is almost 3' from the wall. The manufacturer recommends this placement, and judging by numerous reviews, the manufacturer might just be right.

But on the other hand, I do see Phasecorrect's (justification) #2 point.... Why purchase equipment that you can't use to their full potential? A Ferrari would sure look good in my garage. But I wouldn't want to own one, if I couldn't drive it on the road.

Who in their right mind purchases equipment not knowing if they can live with it?
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