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Narrow Dispersion speakers
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I have recently purchased a speaker that may give you what you are asking for in a narrow dispersion speaker. The JBL Studio 5 series which has a vertical horn works very well in my smaller room and solves the early reflection problem. I was impressed with the imaging and soundstage without the reflections confusing things. I have the standmount Studio 530's and they have three tower speakers in the range. The compression driver and horn cover the upper frequencies from 1,500 Hz and the mid/woofer or woofers cover everything below.

I have never been an affordable horn fan before but these are something special. I am not sure but the woofers are recessed and I wonder if they are time aligned? Imaging and soundstaging sounds like they are. Midrange/vocal clarity is very good and instrumental textures are incredible. Oh and they are not very expensive. Check them out.

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The Vandersteen Treo and 2C speakers will probably fill that requirement.

They do need to be a reasonable distance from the sidewalls and rear wall for best performance, but their energy is pretty much focused on the listening area.

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One of the main goals of the Legacy Whisper is to reduce room interaction.  In fact, Legacy has gone to unheard of lengths in speaker design to accomplish this.  Read a few reviews on it in Stereophile(Class A) and elseware.  I have the original version of them and they are fantastic.

They can be placed closed to side walls and the bass is tunable via an ourboard processor.  Since it is a open baffle design, it is a much cleaner bass, but not as loud.  But, it is WAY more dynamic than Magnepans and other planar/ribbon speakers.

I have had Magnepans and Martin Logans and thought I was stuck in the planar/electrostat world for good. Lack of punch and dynamic was really getting to me over the years.  I hear the Whispers at a local audio show and I upgraded from large Magnepans to the Whisper.  The Whisper has similar qualities as electrostats and planar speakers.  No boxy colorations.  Fast and quick, as it has a ribbon tweeter and low mass freestanding large drivers(again similar to planar speakers in a sense).

It is an unconventional speaker to be sure - 10 drivers per speaker, but it comes together magically.  I reccomend.

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