What speakers are the LEAST sensative to room placement?

Your wife would allow an MBL speaker but not allow you to place them properly? Odd priorities!

My old mirage M1's and M3's for rears. I could put those in the next room and I would still be in the sweet spot!

Wait, there's too different issues. Are you looking for a wide sweetspot or speakers that can be placed close to room boundaries? They're kind of opposite things for the most part.

Bose

the speakers that are the least sensitive to placement are forward-firing speakers with dynamic drivers. all the above speakers mentioned are quite critical of placement from room boundaries. This is due to the reflecting sound. All this of course relys on how important imaging is to you. If precise placement of instruments is less important than a sense of spaciousness, then, by all means, go for the ommidirectional types.

Alan. You sneaky SOB. I was going to post Bose as well. And watch that smilely.

OK.you SOB. Let me ask you and answer for you the follow up question to your post.

What are the worst sounding speakers you can put in your HT?

BOSE!


They are so bad,it doesn't make any difference how you place them.

Any speaker that is immune to room placement/cancellations/effects has to be rubbish in my book.

Well, there are certain options that can help you.

1a) Speakers with special directivity index, even to the bass, to help you at least excite the room to a minimum.

1b) Speakers especially designed for short or mid or long distance listening (essentially comes down to special group delay layouts and directivity index as well)

2) Speakers that can be measured into the room, using one DSP per speaker

3) Use, if all hopes are gone at least sophisticated electronics to at least help you master the room or speaker placement "a bit", like from TACT, or in the past Sigtech, or whatever, or as said speakers that have build in DSPs....

All in all, there is only one cure, a good room and a good speaker, but at least there is some medicine to ease the pain....

Meridian's DSP active speakers allow for boundary compensation and tilt, providing additional placement flexibility.

Assuming you can put them along the same wall, you might look into speakers like Gradients which have a cartioid radiating pattern from the tweeter and midrange to minimize early reflections. They take waveguide strategies designed to take the room a bit out of the picture a step further.

I use a Tact in a awful room and it helps quite a bit.

The original poster has not in any way provided enough information to recommend a solution since we have NO idea whatsoever what the problem is.

The problem is his spouse. That was pretty obvious?

IMO a CD (controlled directivity) with waveguide system like Audio Intelligence nee Geddes' Summa's

A little more data might help.

Are you able to create a "sweet spot" for listening and viewing, or are the speakers positions really asymmetric and seating distributed widely?

Are the available speaker locations jammed against a wall or into corners, or at odd heights?

Are you really close, or very far from the speaker (some speakers do nearfield well, others really want a reasonable distance for the drivers to integrate)?