Having speakers far out from the walls is seldom the best location, usually results in weak bass when applied to full range speakers, and ruins the feng shui of nearly any living space.
@perkadin It depends what you mean by “far,” but go to any audio show or high-end dealer and the speakers are always well away from the walls unless they’re designed specifically to be near the walls, but those speakers are few and far between. But point taken that going too far can result in negative results as well so it’s all about finding what works for someone’s specific tastes, speakers, and room.
Subs, or more specifically bass, is omni directional. They are also adjustable in output and phase so they can sound good in a location where they also look the best.
This is just factually incorrect. To get subs to work best within a room they need to be placed carefully so as not to excite room modes and provide even bass response, and output and phase can’t fully correct for that. Even if you use room correction that can’t do much if anything to improve room nulls — only proper placement can do that. Just because bass is omnidirectional below a certain point does not mean you can just plop them anywhere — the room dictates where subs sound best and that just takes some work to get right unless you do something like a Swarm as mentioned earlier.