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I ended up with the speakers about a quarter of the way out into my large living room. Their rears were about 4½’ from the back wall, their centers about 80″ apart. My ears were about 90″ from the center point between the fronts of the speakers. I toed them in a bit, but not so much that they fired directly at my ears. In that configuration, they presented a balanced if somewhat bass-forward sound and threw a wide, tall, 3D stereo image.

Listening to each speaker in turn, I was struck with how alike they sounded, indicating not just excellent frequency-response matching but also that their placement in the room wasn’t messing with the sound much. Also striking: True mono content sat dead center, not spread unnaturally wide and flat (footnote 7).

These speakers put out a lot of sound. They’ll do best in a large room, allowing for some distance to the listening seat. Given the somewhat omnidirectional projection of bass (the radiation pattern is actually more wide-cardioid, since there are no ports or radiators on the backs of the speakers, but the woofers fire to the side and true bass is everywhere once the room is energized; footnote 8), I’d keep them some distance away from the back and sidewalls.

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