Distance, Speakers, Walls...

[RGA]

My J speakers are as hard into the corners as you can get them without touching the back and side walls. The speakers are toed in such that the tweeters cross a few feet in front of my listening position which is about 10 feet away. I have also tried them at various spots as far as three feet into the room and 3 feet from the side walls but there was notable frequency issues and room induced colouration that while not bad took me out of the music and became what I heard from many a monitor (only wit better bass). The corners took out the room and the in room result creates a wall of sound extending a panaramic soundstaage because the speakers are so very far apart and generally further away from the listnener because of the corner loading. But it does take some time to get the toe in and the exact distances bang on.

My Wharfedales are very placement friendly with their front port -- they are rockers and will also work near wall or in corners (in fact they must be positioned 10 feet apart at the minimum to work right and being horms prefer to face directly at the listener. The speakers were designed for rock appeal and do justice to that better than classical -- they were popular with touring DJ's for a long time and came in a pro version which had a tougher metal casing -- They would be used in dance halls and the like because they could project deepish bass at very high levels extending beyond 120 decibals with relatively low distortion. But they exhibit some box resonances and they have frequency anomolies that are more noticeable (though not fatiguing) than some current speakers for around the same money. Basically the midrange exhibits a slight softness and the treble can be forward while the mid bass can dominate. They really should have stands as well because they sit too low so the ear when seated is above the tweeter which I get the sense is less than ideal - and the woofer is too low to the ground. One day I shall experiment with them because there is much about the speaker that is very good but there are some head scratching -- oh darn if only that were a bit better this could really have been something!

[Florian]

My speakers are 4.8ft from the rear wall, 1.14ft from the sidewalls and 10ft from me.

Note that i have dipole speakers, (no hybrids) and they cancel out their sidewaves

[JoeE SP9]

My speakers are 47.5 inches from the front wall, 15.5 inches from the side walls and I sit 9 feet away. They ended up there after lots of tweaking over the years. I wasn't sure of the distances so I just measured them.

[musicman1999]

My fronts are 51 inches from the back wall,about 2 feet from the side walls,with bookshelfs along each wall not being the same exactly so there is some variance there.They are also 88 inches apart and about 11 feet to the chair.Previous posters made little mention of the distance apart of their speakers,this is also very important.


bill

[MikeyBC]

1.5 from rear wall, 3 feet from side wall, 6 feet apart and i sit about 7-8 feet away. You know already what I have.