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Quad 2805 and room placement

I am interested in the 2805 but before I ask for a demo I would be grateful for advice on room placement.
I have a room about 23 feet square. A pillar restricts the listening area to about 2/3rds of this area, so the right hand speaker will be about 4 feet from the side wall and the left hand speaker roughly equidistant from the side walls.
I understand that distance from side walls does not greatly affect the Quad's performance. Am I right here?
A possible problem is, however, that I really cannot have the speakers more than 3 feet from the wall behind them. At present I have Linn Keltiks and have always had problems with "peaks" in the bass response in spite of adjusting the aktiv cards and the distance from the wall.
Will l have a similar problem with the Quads? Also, I don't really want damping material/curtaining behind the speakers.
Would be most interested to receive anyone's advice or comments.
If you can add advice on amplifiers (909,Quad 40 II or other) would be interested to hear it, though possibly I ought to start another thread for this question.
Regards
Brian
brianog

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chazzbo
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Ask the man who owns one.Great response.My reading is that while you don'ty want to overpower them this is a speaker that will benefit from more current then many folks think.A 40 to 100 watt.Maybe and Arc 100 watt for about $3500 used is what I would want.But in that sized room my EAR 40 watt especially with it's EL34 (best for mids) would do the trick nicely.I'd go tubes be they Seperates or Intergrated.With old 63's they always sounded best and since you don't need hge amounts of power, affordable.
Cheers
Chazz
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