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Floorstanders designed to be against the wall?

In the old days there was Allison, who designed great floorstanders to work perfectly against a wall. I need a modern equivalent of Allison Ones, to stand against a wall and fill a large room. I know that North Creek Kitty Kat Revelators are designed for this purpose, but I need something larger to fill a larger space than a small monitor would do, as well as providing bigger bass output. I need speakers that are specifically designed this way, though, not full-range speakers that "can work somewhat" close to a wall, and invariably fall short in the soundstaging department. Suggestions, please?
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atmasphere
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Springbok10, the Classic Audio Loudspeakers do that quite nicely. They are also completely full-range, smooth, detailed, dynamic (efficiency is 97-98 db), easy impedance (16 ohms)...

The field-coil versions are hard to fault. They have the detail that I have only heard from the best ESLs.

http://classicaudioloudspeakers.com/cgi-bin/index.pl?fs=1&init=1

I have them 6 inches from the rear wall in my room and they image beautifully.
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Hi Rleff, yes we do. You can see the S-30 driving a set on the audiogon coverage of T.H.E. Show. (photo coverage thanks to Albert Porter)

I've done that at home a lot too :)
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Hi Tvad, the T-1 has a 20Hz cutoff, the T-3 a 22 Hz cutoff (although I had mine made up to cut off at 20 Hz), the T-5 cuts off at 32 Hz and its hard to say what the Hartsfield does, since it is so woofer-dependent. I've seen it doing very well down to 25Hz with the right set up.

The T-1 and T-3 both have a down-firing and a front-firing woofer so they tend to not have a lot of proximity effect when near the rear wall. That makes them very easy to set up in a room, even very small ones.
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