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Nearfield listening is not conducive to moving around. The sweet spot is tiny when your speakers are that close to each other and have that much toe in. You need headphones.
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All speakers of a similar size will be pretty much the same in terms of directivity when you are that close. Unless you can find some omnidirectional speakers, but the only ones I've ever seen are very expensive. I'd experiment with them pointing away from you, towards the wall etc so you can get a balance of reflected sound that will be more consistent.
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And you need more record storage space!!
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There are loads of passive nearfield monitors that should do a better job in that position. From experience I'd think you'll want a sub to compliment anything that will fit nicely on those stands.
PMC DB1, ATC SCM7, Adam T5V or early passive KRK Rokit if you can find a pair.
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I’ve decided that the Klipsch r-41m isn’t right for my requirements. They are excellent in terms of detail, and if I was just listening back to records from a static position, I wouldn’t have any problems, but the sound is super directional.
I’m using this almost only to DJ, so there’s a lot of physical movement which means I’m moving in and out of the optimum field of the audio and that makes it hard to consistently track what I need to listen to.
I lack the vocab for what I need here, but I suppose it’s something that has a ‘wider’ sound, so the optimum listening position is much larger, appreciating that there’ll be certain sacrifices over the detail that can be expected.
If any of that makes sense to anyone, what alternatives could I look at?
There’s plenty of powered, XLR connected DJ-specific speaker sets I could run out of a mixer (although not this specific one), but ideally I’d be looking for some passive bookshelfs that I’d use with the CA amp I have.
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