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Seamus,
Yes, that's right. When you get away from the soffit thing, it gets real complicated fast, because now you are hearing strong reflections from the front wall, and they're louder than h-e-double-hockey-sticks because they're so close to your face. So you get this big huge dip at a fixed frequency (unlike the dip from the back wall whose frequency varies with listener position). The frequency of that response dip is dependent upon the distance of the speaker from the front wall.
The problem with a fixed frequency dip is that it won't go away no matter where you stand (as long as you are between the speakers and the rear wall), so you really start believing it as the real frequency response of the speaker, and hence the mix. So to counteract this response inaccuracy you tend to add back a lot of bass, so that when you take the mix and play it back in a car system, it sounds like mud.
So the upshot of all of this is that I'm a true believer in wall-mount speakers.
--Wes
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