No one was in the room when I walked in so I handed him a known disc. It opened up with a soft piano intro. My first thought was what happened to the highs? All of the air and space cues were gone. All upper end extension was gone. Upper end detail level was gone. Vocals were very nice sounding but two dimensional. There was no depth of the sound stage. It all sounded as if it were playing from the wall forward. I guess it should though, they were setting right up against the wall. This might have been compensating for the baffle step loss. These might have sounded pretty thin in a large treated room with the speaker well placed away from boundary walls.
For how these speakers sounded verses what he was asking for them, I think it to be a bit insane.
Sorry if this sounded a bit negative, but I call them like I hear them.
Danny