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My first hifi
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58douglide
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Very nice.
ClusterChuck
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Although they go to great lengths to display their products in appealing environments, most high end gear makers show us systems with speakers placed WELL into the room, far away from surfaces behind & to the sides of them. There's a reason for that and it has almost nothing to do with cosmetic appeal.
At home, we usually have to obtain permission of the Chief Aesthetic Officer (wife) to enjoy our systems. That's the reason we see so many systems with speaker cabinets inches away from the wall behind them. And it makes sense from a living perspective. Few of us have room dimensions sufficient to permanently place speakers where they sound best vs optimal cosmetic/functional life requirements. Still, a balance can be struck by knowing more and experimenting. There is definitely a magic combination of all these things, its just a matter of finding how to best integrate what works into you particular space.
Any system - regardless of cost - is at the mercy of the room it's projecting sound into. That's a universal truth.
General guidelines are certainly valid. Like making the floor surface between speaker and listener is soft/absorbing (carpet) as a first way to suppress early reflections that invariably smear and confuse the sonic image hitting your ear. That's another universal truth.
Fine tuning - without getting nutty about it - by experimenting with toe-in, cabinet orientation to rear & side walls is totally free and harmless.
But learning how-to-listen (specific to speaker placement experimentation) with a repeatable process is key to results.
There's tons of How-To out there. Here's a few worth looking into:
http://www.mapleshadestore.com/freeupgrades.php
https://nordost.com/blog/speaker-placement-image-is-everything/
http://getbettersound.com/index.php
At home, we usually have to obtain permission of the Chief Aesthetic Officer (wife) to enjoy our systems. That's the reason we see so many systems with speaker cabinets inches away from the wall behind them. And it makes sense from a living perspective. Few of us have room dimensions sufficient to permanently place speakers where they sound best vs optimal cosmetic/functional life requirements. Still, a balance can be struck by knowing more and experimenting. There is definitely a magic combination of all these things, its just a matter of finding how to best integrate what works into you particular space.
Any system - regardless of cost - is at the mercy of the room it's projecting sound into. That's a universal truth.
General guidelines are certainly valid. Like making the floor surface between speaker and listener is soft/absorbing (carpet) as a first way to suppress early reflections that invariably smear and confuse the sonic image hitting your ear. That's another universal truth.
Fine tuning - without getting nutty about it - by experimenting with toe-in, cabinet orientation to rear & side walls is totally free and harmless.
But learning how-to-listen (specific to speaker placement experimentation) with a repeatable process is key to results.
There's tons of How-To out there. Here's a few worth looking into:
http://www.mapleshadestore.com/freeupgrades.php
https://nordost.com/blog/speaker-placement-image-is-everything/
http://getbettersound.com/index.php
