OK, moving the listening position further from the wall (by about 18") definitely tightens things up (less bloat). Speakers are toed in to cross over roughly at the current listening position.
If you can run these to fire down the long length of the room, preferably 2 to 3 feet out from the back wall, and same again for the side walls; and then have your listening position 2-3 feet from the rear wall then I imagine you’ll give them a better space to work within and cope with the bass energy they produce.
Of course that may not be entirely compatible with SWMBO’s preferences…
The new mini dsp Flex system is good. A sonic improvement over previous generation esp the analogue input.
Not cheap mind.
When the speakers first arrived, my instinct was to do pretty much as you suggest, but Mrs horace was not delighted by the idea. That said, she has now warmed to the unusual appearance of the Zus in their ‘distinctive’ electric raspberry* finish, so I might refloat the idea. It’s about time we ‘freshened up’ the lounge anyway…
*a sort of metallic pink - a marmite option if ever there was one.
Thanks, that’s a generous offer. If my attempts to improve things the old fashioned way should come to nought, I’ll drop you a line.
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Ive heard some zu speakers apparently preferred being straight instead of toed in
This.
I also tried the DSpeaker Antimode c/o Bigdur - but it did nothing useful at-all, and rather obviously reduced overall fidelity.
I’m guessing the room and speakers I had at the time just didn’t really need it; in a troublesome room I’ve no doubt the story would have ended differently.
PS: only heard 2-way Zus and really liked them - fun speakers with the right amplification.
Mebbe what you really need is one of these -
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Oh yes, I want one of those - I’ve ALWAYS wanted one of those. But only if it’s got lights on it (like that one).
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Ever since finding that image I’ve been sniffing-around on Thiefbay… 
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Every stack system had one of these back in the day. Absolutely no fucker had any idea how to use them, but they looked fantastic.
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I’ve just spent some time messing around with speaker placement. While doing this, I solved the bass issue. Turns out that someone had turned the bass level to max on each speaker. I have my suspicions (no.1 son is in the frame), but all is well again.
Next task is to sort out the bias on my AN Arm. I mean, who invented that bias system anyway? Little weight on a bit of string. Bloody nonsense…Rega had it right with their sliding nodule, which you set at whatever value you like, cos it seemed to make no fucking difference…
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Just disconnect it. It has absolutely no effect on the performance of the arm whatsoever.
Seriously? I’ve been putting off that job for fucking months 
Audio Note have quite a history of trolling their customers, and their dealers, although they lost most of those!
If it really makes no difference, how about not even bothering to disconnect it?
This is also an option but I genuinely prefer how my Arm III sounds with it not attached.
I really hate messing with turntables. There’s always the risk of some terrible faux-pas nagging away at me.
What if I upset the karma of the great foo fairy in some way?
What if my cartridge alignment is a trillionth of a degree out?
What if…
OK - off it comes.
Edit: as soon as I work out how to disconnect it without the use of scissors.
PS - AN’s laughably entitled ‘User Manual’ is erm, laughable.