Even just plonking them in the first available space, completely amazed. Out of curiosity I picked up a pair of fostex full range speakers in a back loaded horn cabinet, appear to be a 126en or similar. This is just my theory though as trying small bookshelf speakers is less of an issue.
Likely the large boxes lack breathing space, there are odd reflections and the cluster arrangement of the drivers means I'm sitting too close and the three way can't come together in time. The image is non-existent and treble seems really pronounced and harsh. The issue? There is a lack of coherency with the mids, trebles and bass all over the place. The result has been quite unsatisfying and meant constant change in pursuit of something which works better. The result has been a tight layout, speakers ~1.2m apart and a seat virtually touching distance at a stretch. The room itself was only 3.5m x 2.2m to start with. With the arrival of child however the small spare bedroom became the listening space and I mean small once all the bookshelves and other bric a brac is in there. This worked fantastically in the old space, open lounge with vaulted ceilings and a good few metres between the speakers. I found that I loved the effortlessness and impact of a big bass driver and ended up with Yamaha NS1000m, a nice 12" woofer.
Over the course of many years I moved from small speakers to ones with larger and larger bass units.
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