Well that is my problem. I have no choice but to slam them up against a rear wall. Depending on the depth of the SS10 the most I will have is 28" from the back wall to the front of the speaker. At least I will have 4 feet from the sides of the speakers to the walls.And please dont suggest another speaker might work better in my situation. I have been saving my money ever since I heard them at the lincoln city audiofest and now can purchase them and I will not be denied.
If you have 28" from the front of the speaker to the rear wall, you would end up with 5" of free space behind the woofer cabinets. Since they are not rear ported (like the HT3's), it doesn't seem to me that this would be a major problem. I can certainly move my prototypes to 5" from the rear walls and check them out for you.
Dennis does point out that the rear wave of the mirange would benefit from additional space. But the rear of the top section would still be 15" from the rear wall. This, too, may be workable. At worst case, you could experiment with additional acoustic stuffing to control the amount of backwave information, or even use the hard grill to create a psuedo-sealed midrange section.
We are faced with sitautions like this all the time. Many owners simply don't have the option of dealing with speaker setup in a totally optimum fashion. But in any given case, the same limitations apply to any speaker. So we do the best we can. And in most cases, owners are more than satisfied with the results.
In this situation, the SoundScape 10's would certainly be a better fit than rear ported HT3's where you would only have 13" from the rear of the speaker to the rear wall. While not totally optimum, I think you would be OK and I suspect the SoundScapes would outperform anything else you could fit in this space.
Of course, that's just my 2-cents worth...
- Jim
