Thanks Barry, that’s good to know. I will thus have to rule out electrostats and open baffle speakers because I simply don’t have the space and flexibility. My speakers have to live around one foot off the front wall which is not ideal for any speaker. My VR-1s are designed for near wall placement, and the model by Troels mentioned above also seems to work near walls, but I suspect that only few speakers are worth their cost when placed like this.