Maybe get rid of current wife. Order one dozen big fat ones on-line. Place one in each corner, 2 per side at first reflection points and the rest on the floor between you and the speakers.
Face them inwards for better dispersion or outwards for more bottom end.
Seriously, you will have no happiness in that room without treating the acoustics, no matter the speaker chosen.
@b_limo posted some useful stuff and is correct about the misinformation being given out. Plastic pot plants will not help in any meaningful way. I have posted a few times with advice gained from study and experience which I won't repeat here because there is a lot to be said.
Get an inexpensive mic. and download a free app from Holm Impulse or REW and measure your room instead of guessing. Educating yourself in matters acoustic will reward with treatments that actually help unlike wall to wall carpet or hanging drapes everywhere. These just soak up a narrow band of high frequencies, reducing them disproportionately while the rest of the spectrum are unaffected and remain bouncing around the room with overly long decay smearing and confusing.
DIY is fun and easy and allows you to choose fabric to suit the decor and you are also able to build true broad-band absorbers instead of the lesser ones sold commercially which need to be smaller for shipping.
What works extremely well is an overhead 'cloud' This can be a large frame at least 150mm (6") deep filled with OC 703 and suspended at least 100mm below the ceiling. I helped a friend with such a unit which was finished with concealed strip lights and the whole thing looked classy. The addition was transformative.
Good luck.
Face them inwards for better dispersion or outwards for more bottom end.
Seriously, you will have no happiness in that room without treating the acoustics, no matter the speaker chosen.
@b_limo posted some useful stuff and is correct about the misinformation being given out. Plastic pot plants will not help in any meaningful way. I have posted a few times with advice gained from study and experience which I won't repeat here because there is a lot to be said.
Get an inexpensive mic. and download a free app from Holm Impulse or REW and measure your room instead of guessing. Educating yourself in matters acoustic will reward with treatments that actually help unlike wall to wall carpet or hanging drapes everywhere. These just soak up a narrow band of high frequencies, reducing them disproportionately while the rest of the spectrum are unaffected and remain bouncing around the room with overly long decay smearing and confusing.
DIY is fun and easy and allows you to choose fabric to suit the decor and you are also able to build true broad-band absorbers instead of the lesser ones sold commercially which need to be smaller for shipping.
What works extremely well is an overhead 'cloud' This can be a large frame at least 150mm (6") deep filled with OC 703 and suspended at least 100mm below the ceiling. I helped a friend with such a unit which was finished with concealed strip lights and the whole thing looked classy. The addition was transformative.
Good luck.