What size of room does one think is minimum in order for these speakers to breath?
Mike
Placement of the Apex III in a room is a lot less of a issue when compaired to the HT3 or HT8.With the HT3 and HT8 the sidefiring woofers can load a room very very hard if they are placed to close to the side walls.With the Apex III or the Apex LCR this is a issue but not near that of the HT3 and HT8 as far as room placement.
Now your question for room to breath!
We have the Apex III in a room 13ft x 40ft long with limited room treatment.The Apex III are placed 2ft from the rear wall and 3ft from the side walls.I would recommend 1-2ft from rear wall plus side walls as a min distance with treatment for first reflections on the walls.This room treatment can be used or not but for best imaging we recommend first reflection treatment as a min.
http://www.eighthnerve.com/http://www.gikacoustics.com/We also have customers who have the Apex III in a room 10X12 with room treatments
as a must for this size of room.