generally nearfield speaker is not affected by room acoustics.
The further you walk from the speakers more than 1ft room affects the frequency response, localization, and tonal quality.
In some rooms even at 1 ft distance is greatly affected by room and response is not as flat as in acoustically dead chamber.
To summarize:
- nearfield placement as where its proximity is close to listener (~1ft),
- tonal quality is similar to speaker designed curve,
- room is not affecting perceived quality of speaker speaking of transients, dips/boosts of F, phase coherence.