In part this is a frequency response issue. Speakers with more top end will sound to your mind like the music is closer to you. Those that are more rolled off will sound more distant as the brain interprets the loss of highs as coming from greater distance.
I certain would not discourage your listening to horn as I like their immediacy, but they have better leading edge or transient response. Again this is largely high frequency response.
well i have arcam a90 amp and aq gibraltar speakercables so one of them or both maybe. had a sound like (the voice and music between the speakers are to far away sometimes) and i want it to come more foreward me.
I know that you asked for speakers, but I have experienced what you are looking for with a CDP change. I was using a NAD 541i while playing Robert Plant's 66 to Timbukto and had him singing right in front of me. My speakers are 11 ft. away. When I changed CDP's he was then behind the speakers. Every thing else was the same, just the CDP change. Just my 2 cents.
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