Quote Originally Posted by mlsstl
I owned a pair of 1.6QRs for a few years and really enjoyed them. The only drawback I found is they are quite room dependent and unfortunately they were no longer well suited when I moved not quite five years ago. You need to have a room where you can have some distance from the side and rear walls, plus, since they are dipoles, you want reasonable symmetry on the left and right side behind the speaker.
I was thrilled to discover that the listening room that I auditioned the 1.7s in was nearly identical to my own. The speakers were maybe 18" off the rear wall, about 8' apart, and the chair that I sat in was against the opposite wall 12' away. I got up and moved about 4' laterally in both directions from the chair, but image quality suffered only slightly.

How do the 1.7s compare to the 1.6s? I'm seeing some incredible bargains start surfacing on the 1.6s lately.