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RE: I have a hunch.

I've never heard them pulled out too far, because I've never had a listening room large enough! In the rooms I've had, the farther the better.

Magnepan designs for an average room -- no way they can cover all eventualities -- which is why they suggest the DWM for large or bass-shy rooms. Conversely, he compared Tympanis in a small room to a trumpet in a telephone booth.

I don't know what your experience is, but with the MMG's it always seemed to me that the sense of depth was a compromise between the distance to the rear wall and the recording venue -- my brain seems to split the difference.

That being said (and forgive me if this is kind of disjointed -- tired and typing this in a train station) modern control rooms use a reflection-free zone, which is essentially equivalent to speakers that are far from the wall with lots of diffusion behind them, and they don't lose attack -- they tend to sound very clinical because they have a low Rt time, a drier acoustic than most home rooms have or should have. So what I'm wondering is whether the problem with moving the speakers out is that the room is too reverberant?

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