Is your room dedicated? Do you have side walls on both sides of the speakers? Glare is usually associated with the room apart from electronics. If you want to minimize glare with close placement to room boundaries, try some diffusors and place them on the wall behind(or beside) the speakers. The sound will be more uniformly distributed producing a more natural and 3-dimensional sound.
Question - speaker placement - B & W 805
I am curious to how others place these speakers. I have read countless articles on speaker placement and everytime I try the standard nearfield formula, I get less than ideal performance. For me, the only way these speakers sound right to me is to have them about 7 feet out from the rear wall and I have to listen to them extremely close, almost even with them, about 4 or 5 feet away from them. Any further away and the room gets too involved with the sound. It seems like they are very finicky or I am very finicky and unless the room is perfect acoustically, they need to be very close to the listener. Has anyone else experienced this with speaker placement. I love the sound of them but I wish they would allow closer placement to the rear wall so I could experience a little more weight. I get too much glare and the instruments sound too close together when place near the rear wall.