FinkTeam KIM - thoughts?

Good stuff, thanks.

You are obvious well-experienced, and sophisticated, but I'll add one more detail. For many years I basically followed the equilateral triangle speaker placement formula, with a little tweaking. Then, after having been exposed to Jim Smith's approach (X = distance between tweeters, Y = distance between your ear and the speaker; X/Y is 83%), I found that the imaging improved, including with the KIMs.

YMMV

@whipsaw Thanks for the tip, I will investigate further. I have been chatting with AI on better placement, and already have some improvements. I find placement tweaking anxiety inducing and rather exhausting, and tend to quit and listen to music. I will get there. 

Wow these things look intriguing. I had only ever heard of their big speaker design which I think has a 15 inch driver for lows. These look much more compatible with the average room, and by that I mean normal sized. 

Thanks for the updates, and hopefully they just keep getting better as you dial in placement. That can be a journey of trial and error, but worth it in the end.

@996turbo911 They intrigued me enough to buy them without hearing them and I am glad I did. And yes, they are quite room compatible, and they have fairly good WAF. I have been making progress on placement, slow going.

@zlone Nice! In my humble opinion, not enough brands design their speakers with real-world usability in mind. Even when people have a dedicated audio room of sorts, they still usually have some sort of limitations when it comes to placement. Especially with proximity to at least one wall. In a perfect world, sure, we all have anechoic chambers etc. But nice to see FinkTeam is aware that isn't the case.