haxter1;556778 Wrote: > Mine are also cherry. You should notice that the music (sound stage) > not only has depth with the grills off but is spread across the room > making one think that there are no speakers there.
We have a very difficult room, I think. A mostly open plan living room, dining room and kitchen. Think of a square room with a half wall about 2/3 into the width of the room dividing off the kitchen from the living room with the dining area common to both the kitchen and living room (the leg of the "L" if you ignored the kitchen). The speakers are in the living room area which is where we do most of our listening and face the long way into the room as opposed to facing towards the kitchen/dining room portion. There are lots of constraints due to big picture windows (speakers are about 1 1/2 higher than the window base), furniture placement, etc. The RH speaker is about 3' in from a solid wall running most of the length of the room and 2' forward from the rear wall. The LH speaker is also 2' forward from the rear wall, but has a good 12' (that's the dining area) between it and the outer wall. I can't really move them forward any more. Speakers are seperated by about 9' and that's about as close as they're gonna' be able to get +/- an inch or two. Unfortunately, we don't have a listening "spot"--again due to design issues, so I am striving for that "whole room" sound rather than having it necessarily focused in on a spot. Right now, I have them both toed in (and tilted up a bit) with the RH speaker toed in more than the LH---my seat-of-the-pants reasoning on that being that the big long wall near the RH is reflecting more sound into the room and toeing the speaker away from that wall will compensate a bit for the LH speaker being so far from any parallel wall at all. They're still breaking in of, course, but if you or anyone has any advice as to how I might best place the speakers and compensate for the room oddities, I would be very appreciative. Right now things are sounding pretty good, though but, of course, if I can tweak a better sound by following some sage advice, I'm all ears! -- rgro Rick System information ------------------------ Duet SBC running 7.5.1 r8837, an SBR running firmware V 65. Controller and receiver configured in all-wireless set-up using Netgear WNDR 3700. Running Squeeze Server 7.5.1 r30836 on Windows 7 64 bit/ HP Pavillion w/Intel i7 processor Marantz PM8003 integrated amp, Cambridge Audio DacMagic, Vienna Acoustic Mozart Grand speakers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rgro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79716 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
