B&W 705 S3 with bad acoustics


We Recently moved into a new home that has terrible room acoustics, 12' ceilings, tile floors, glass window walls.  Open floor plan with no possibility or room treatment. I've never owned B&W speakers curious if they will glare in a very resonate room. Previous tried Kef Rs meta, Dynaudio special 40 and Sonus Faber Sonetto w/ Rel T9x with no luck. Paird with Hegel h390. Auralic streamer.

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Ime acoustic problems call for acoustic solutions, and EQ is not an acoustic solution.  Theoretically aggressive room treatment would help in this case.  When room treatment isn’t feasible, one alternative would be speakers whose radiation patterns are sufficiently narrow and sufficiently uniform that they do not interact with the room in an undesirable way to begin with.  

Quoting acoustician Matthew Poes: "A speaker that has controlled dispersion does basically the same thing you’d expect an acoustic panel to do, but it does a better job. And it allows you to get away with no panels on the wall.”
 
Duke