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RE: I have a hunch.

Adding on to this thought, I think it also gets to why I prefer no treatment as the speakers get substantially further from the FW.

As expressed in earlier posts, I believe there are tradeoffs in getting the speakers further from the FW. You gain awesome depth and sounstage size, but after five feet or so the bass starts losing punch*, and at further still, the images and transients start getting less snappy and concrete and more "ethereal."

The worst I ever heard my Maggies sound was when I tried them with no back wall at all (firing to the rear into a huge open air room). Currently I am running my 3.7i's about 5+ feet with diffusion behind (though the improvement is marginal) while I run by IIIa's eleven feet out from FW in a shoebox shaped room with no treatment at all. Tomorrow I will probably try something else.

I did once ask Wendell if there is any distance from the FW which is too far out for his speakers. Oddly, he answered "no."

*Limage set ups compensate partially for the bass by moving the speaker closer to the SW.

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