What do you think about Magnepan speakers?

[manlystanley]

I uploaded some pictures of my Movie/Listening room, as I'm not sure if the 1.6QR's would fit. As you can see, I have a door toward the front of the room. In fact when the door opens, the left speaker only has an inch clearance. So, some concerns about the speakers:

-- I've read that I need to have them 3-4 feet from the front wall. Would there be a difference in sound if I only had them 2 feet from the front wall?

-- The Screen only has 4 feet on both sides for the wall. So since speakers are 19 inches wide that would only leave about 2 feet from the side wall. Would that be OK?

Thanks for your help!!

[Feanor]

Just a couple of comments ...

The Maggies could sound great in that room, though somehow I'm not sure about them in a Home Theater setup. Personally I wouldn't consider them in purely HT set, but yours is a combined setup, so that's different.

I uploaded some pictures of my Movie/Listening room, as I'm not sure if the 1.6QR's would fit. As you can see, I have a door toward the front of the room. In fact when the door opens, the left speaker only has an inch clearance. So, some concerns about the speakers:

-- I've read that I need to have them 3-4 feet from the front wall. Would there be a difference in sound if I only had them 2 feet from the front wall?

At 2 feet if you use some sort of sound diffusion/absorbsion panel behind the Maggies the result would be satisfactory though you would loose a little lf the famous Maggies soundstage.

-- The Screen only has 4 feet on both sides for the wall. So since speakers are 19 inches wide that would only leave about 2 feet from the side wall. Would that be OK?

2 feet from side walls is OK.

Thanks for your help!!