Audiophilepure

https://hometheaterhifi.com/reviews/speaker/sonus-faber-minima-amator-ii-bookshelf-speaker-review/

“First, I found that I preferred the overall sound with the speakers closer to the rear walls than usual. I settled on about 30 inches between my front wall and the speakers’ rear baffles. I thought that this would make the bass a bit too boomy, but that was not the case. I also preferred the sound with the speakers a bit closer to” each other than usual. My final placement put the speakers six feet apart and 9.5 feet from my listening position. I adjusted the toe until the speakers converged at a point about two feet behind my head. This gave me the best overall tonal balance as well as optimizing imaging and soundstage depth. I didn’t feel the need to add any rake to the setup as the tweeters were sitting at ear level for me and sounded nicely balanced as is

https://hometheaterreview.com/focal-chora-826-three-way-floorstanding-loudspeaker-reviewed/

“Each Chora 826 sports one pair of binding posts, so bi-wiring isn’t accommodated. Overall, I really love the quality of the binding posts, as they’re easy to loosen and tighten and look quite lovely. If I have one concern, it’s that tightly fitted black and red caps will need to be removed if you intend to use banana plugs (as I always do), and these caps do put up a good bit of a fight. I had to end up resorting to needle-nosed pliers to extract them, and it felt a bit like pulling a tooth. By the time I had them out, the caps were more than a bit mangled.

From there, though, setup is a breeze. Due to the front-ported design of the speaker, you don’t have to be quite as concerned with distance from rear boundaries. In my relatively small two-channel listening room, this is a blessing. Being able to position a pair of speakers six inches from the wall rather than eighteen definitely leaves me with more breathing room and affords a wider soundstage, since there’s more distance between me and the speakers.”

https://audiofi.net/2020/01/bowers-wilkins-formation-duo-supreme-streaming-speakers/

“First impressions were positive – a big and expansive sound stage was painted, and even with compressed material from Apple Music, a very enjoyable sound was presented, with fine rhythmic “foot-tapping” quality to the bass line on Dave Brubeck’s Time In (Apple Music Adaptive AAC streaming). Browsing through my Apple Music library was an enjoyable spree, the speakers taking on all genres and presenting a very detailed, rhythmic and enjoyable rendition.

Especially of note was the anchoring of female vocals in the centre of the soundfield and the texture of the plucked double bass (Ilona Knopfler, Live the Life, Adaptive AAC streaming). Vocals had fine projection, with exquisite handing of sibilants and the “air” surrounding the singer. The double bass showed lovely texture, with the leading edge of the plucked sound having fine articulation – one can almost visualise the singer and the bassist”