Question How well positioned are your loudspeakers?

[Fandango Andy]

I visit many people’s homes with work. As most people don’t have anything resembling a HiFi system, it’s always a pleasant surprise when I see one. I recently visited a house that had two systems made up of quality equipment. However, the main one had speakers sat on a marble fireplace hearth less than a meter apart and only about two centimetres from the surround, also marble. I have no idea how the system sounded but I guarantee it could have sounded considerably better with a little adjustment to the position; they had plenty of space to do this!

I see things like this all the time, not just in homes, but also on this forum when people post images of speakers against walls, or on shelves. Like many people my main system is in my living room and comes with some positioning compromises. This became more noticeable a few years ago when I moved from the most forgiving speakers to a pair that need careful positioning. I got it right in the end. This is why I ask purely out of curiosity:

How well positioned are your loudspeakers?

 

[daytona600]

How well positioned are your loudspeakers?
Married - Small speaker , Terrible position stuck in corners
Single - Big speakers , Ideal laser aligned position well into the room

 

[Gray]

How well positioned are your loudspeakers?

Not badly.
Front ported, 2 metres apart, on solid stands and toed in to form an equilateral triangle with my listening position.
One speaker is closer than I would prefer, to a corner.
But, more importantly, for the good of the sound, there is no bare floor in the room and two of the walls and the entire ceiling have been treated to (very successfully) reduce the overall reverberation in the room.
Better still, there's never anyone else in the room, so I only ever hear the speakers.....at proper volume levels (which, during the daytime at least, must always be above conversation level)