Planar close to a rear wall? Quad for example?

a number of years ago, i visited a technician who repairs quads. as i walked into his house, i noticed a pair of quads
set up in his kitchgen. the speakers were very close to the wall, probably, no more than 1 foot.

while there was a loss of depth, the naturalness of timbre was evident.
a poorly set up pair of quad 57 is preferable, to my ears, to any cone design.

hi duke: why don't you design a pair of electrostatic speakers to compete with the sound labs you sell ?

hi newbee:

i too owned quad 63's. having owned stacked quad 57's for 7 years, i would say, the 63's are more inaccurate, timbrally speaking. my experience with quad 57s placed close to the wall does not confirm your experience with the 63's reagrding loss of clarity. when i owned the 63s, they were placed 5 feet from the rear wall. i can't say that clarity was a salient aspect of its performance. i liked the speakers for their absence of brightness, boxlessness and listenability, not because of transparency.

then again, you and i probably used different amp, pre and digital components.

hi mjstark:

it is too bad you were not with me when i heard a pair of quads set up in a kitchen. i di not think it would work either. i played an orchestral selection--ravel's alborado del graciso conducted by ansermet.

although depth was not ideal, the timbre of the instruments was quite impressive.