Nearfield Nirvana ?

My living room is about 24’ wide and 16’ deep and is open another 16’ behind my listening seat to the kitchen.

My seat to left speaker is 9’ and right speaker is 7’. Plus, each 10” Fathom sub used to face a polo club chair or a glider recliner just 3’ away.

I was constantly fiddling with the balance and there was way too much base and all the wall plates would rattle constantly at medium loud to loud volumes.

Solution . . . I angled each sub out almost 45 degrees to go past the chairs just to try it and am amazed.

Not only did the balance issue go away, the base feedback is gone (of course!) but the sound stage is much wider and Willie and Frank seem to now sing from a position somewhere deep behind the tv.

I post this just to see if others will think about trying this and post their impressions.

Will post pic later . . IF I can figure out how.