KEF Q950 Floor Standing Speaker

i bought the Q950's bc of the great reviews for them, and KEFs in general, but equally bc of the closed box nature of the floorstanders. i have what may be the accoustically worst listening space - an open design living room/kitchen/dining room/open staircase leading to open second floor landing, including 17 foot ceiling in the living r and variable 8-15 foot ceilings in the rest. and the front wall in the living r, where the speakers are, is pocked with five 2 foot deep, approx 3 x 4 foot insets (for exhibiting sculpture perhaps?). my old bookshelf speakers used to sit in 2 of those spaces, about 5 feet above the floor. the Q950's sit to either side of the front wall, the right one about a foot out from right corner, with one of those spaces behind it, and the left one in the beginning of a hallway formed by an angle of the front wall and the staircase. it's an impossible situation, but the Qs laugh at it and sing in a voice i never thought possible for this space. now I'm pretty old and my ears haven't been what they were since the 60's, but the highs, mids and lows are remarkable. and soundstage! how is that possible in this room?! the base may not be as deep as one may expect for 2 8" woofers per speaker, my old Advents seemed deeper, though they were 10 inch, and maybe they were just softer, the Qs are taut, but that is likely the trade off for closed cabinets, and it's those closed cabs that i attribute to the sound of the Qs in this room. they are set up in the only place i can put them, with very limited flexibility, even for angling them. if you have a placement problem, these speakers are the solution. i bought the Walnut. they are so pretty! i will probably get the grills just to limit the dust buildup when i'm not listening to them, but it may be a while before that happens, in part bc they are also awesome as front speakers in a 5.1 system for streaming movies. outstanding movie sound...rockets, ricochets, and dialogue quality. btw, my source is a getting old Yamaha tsr-7810 AV receiver, 95 watts/channel, usually playing thru a Bluesound Node. the Qs have given the Yamaha new life. a downside is that the Qs are as good as the source, so great with hi res amazon music, but not so with old mp3 files on a USB, and great for streaming movies, but not so much with Dish. so i will end as i began, the Q950s sound outstanding and appear to be very forgiving of room placement and acoustics. and they were on sale!