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Recommended Speaker Design for Corner / Near-Wall Placement?

Hi all, hoping to learn from your experiences.  My listening space is living room/kitchen (10x15) in a small apartment. Due to kitchen counter, speaker placement is along 7 ft front wall pointing towards living room sofa, with room corner and kitchen counter "corner" as the boundaries. 

Looking for speaker options that can go near wall/corner and perform well.  Have looked into Audio Note, Zu Audio, Klipsch horns, Tribe On-Wall, Ohm Acoustics, etc. Started with Dynaudio bookshelves + dual subs placed on either side of small kitchen table about 5.5' apart. 50/50 music/movies.  I understand I may not get great imaging given my sofa position of 10-12 feet back from speakers 5-6 feet apart, but I can always move closer for listening. Thanks!


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Gradient Revolutions are made to accommodate different speaker locations, particularly those close to walls.  To me, they sound very good.  I like Audio Note speakers in close to the wall locations too (I see you have already looked into that brand).

Rodge827 menioned the Charney Maestro.  I heard their larger model, the Companion in a small room.  It is a serious challenger to almost ANY speaker, regardless of price.  The Companion is somewhat deeper than the Maestro, so it might not be as suited for a near wall setup.  I believe you can get the Maestro with different drivers; the Voxativ is a very nice driver, but, for my taste, the AER drivers offered by Charney are even better (better extension on top).
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