A few speakers are designed or are tunable (via port stuffing) to enable placement closer to the rear walls. It's just a matter of how the load the room acoustically. Monitor Audio Silver 300 7G are one. In my room, I am able to get them within 18" of the back wall and 30" from the side walls with the lower port stuffed and still have male and female vocals that aren't muddy, and bass extension to the around 40Hz. FWIW, I've tried and no way I can get my Magnepan LRS (need more room) or KEF LS50s (they're nearfield monitors) to work in my room. I also have 9 - 24" square by 2" acoustical panels on the ceiling - these made a huge improvement in a very high 12- 15 ft sloped ceiling room.
room size question.
( wasnt sure what category to put this in ,so figured this one would get more views)
in watching some you tube videos, one from Jays audio lab, and another one from Paul ( ps audio ), they both mention how the speakers should be set up in the room and it seems they bring them out into the room quite a bit. they say that when this happens, you have the soundstage and jay was mentioning that there are layers that one gets to hear when listening.
my question i guess is that can this same thing happen in a smaller room, say 12x12 or is one just limited to say center imaging due to room size ?
room is treated
this is the ps audio video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x63RORq8JMw
jays video