Vandersteen Speakers.. Are All Other Speaker Makers Doing It Wrong ?

i have both vandies and thiels, the babies of each family. the vandies, even the smallest models, NEED a LARGE listening room, the dealer's listening room was about 20' by 40', they sounded as designed in that large space [holographic imaging, on the mellow side of neutral]. but if you are in a small room, they lose their imaging magic and become boxy and very shouty around the crossover point. the Thiel's, OTOH, work just fine in my little listening room [14' wide and a bit deeper than that], they throw a stereo image almost totally independent of of the speakers' apparent locations, also on the mellow side of neutral but with no shoutiness whatsoever. i sit about 7 feet from the Thiel's but the vandies didn't sound ok until i sat at almost twice that distance from them.