Speakers good for close to wall placement

I've had a number of speakers in our large living/kitchen area over four decades. My wife doesn't want speakers too far out in the room. I've finally found the perfect speaker for that room and those restrictions, the Larsen 8.2. No need for subs either. The low bass on these relatively small speakers is amazing. I tried several amps, both solid state and tube. So far I'm getting the best synergy with Manley Snapper monos.

One more for Larsen.  

This reminds me of something.  Among my nearly half century of owning B&W's, I had tall electrostatic panels speakers for 25 years.  Instead of placing them near a wall, I removed a section of the wall and used the speakers in two different rooms.  The sound was certainly clean and crisp from the upper bass to the mid-range, where 'stats really shine.  I had originally done this for the early, wood framed Magnepans, but those speakers were not really good at anything, except for sounding like Bose 901's with an even worse head cold than they had. 

The whole speakers close to the wall issue is GREATLY misunderstood and fraught with a ton of misinformation. 
  You need to consider what is going on to understand the situation as a whole. 
1) When you place a speaker close to any room boundary you reinforce bass response AND excite room nodes. This is a major reason why people like small speakers in tight spaces close to walls. This is easily fixed with bass traps  but many will never spend the money and never get true full potential from their setup.

2) Walls create reflections and even the back of a speaker cabinet radiates sound, sound that is not necessarily pleasing. Don't believe me, get behind a speaker box and put your ear near the cabinet. It's not pretty and early reflections of this sort are not pretty. Solution is to put absorbers directly behind speakers or better yet a QRD diffusor.  

The speaker and room should be considered as a unit and integration is paramount. I have 3 VERY large speaker systems that traditional misinformation says they only sound good several feet away from the walls however I can place the fronts 3 feet from the rear wall with no issues being that I have my rear wall done in Skyline QRD's and proper bass traps tuned for a low RT60. 

The popularity of small speakers with tiny woofers is undoubtedly due to the reluctance to properly treat a room's nodes for full range capable speakers and smaller speakers have less surface to radiate objectionable rear waves. 

The only speakers that really need to be spaced a but from rear walls are electrostats which have membrane issues when too close to a boundary wall. 

I remember being shocked by the Snell speakers that were designed to go flat against a rear wall and taking the rear early reflection completely out of the equation however the spaced approach with a diffusor gives a soundstage of epic scale and more enjoyable experience.

So treat you room first and then worry less about speaker selection.

If you are into DIY, you might want to consider Curt Campbell's Halcyons. These are 22 inches deep but intended to be right up against the front wall 2-3 inches.  They are bigger than they look, and sound it.  Build thread here:  https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/multi-way/349255-curt-campbells-halcyon-build-thread.html