Question How well positioned are your loudspeakers?

[Jasonovich]

I make them believe they were the ones who left me and it worked out , and even this summer all together at the beach .
Also age helps not kids anymore and being there when needed , this refering to old relations in the past became friendship with the years, never left in bad terms.

Even if they done you wrong, you forgive. If you let it eat you up, you'll never be able to reconcile the past. Today things are amicable with my ex and my daughter and her kids bring light into my life. And my second wife, coming up to 20 years of marriage (touch wood!), I would have not met her had I not been divorced. It's weird how life seems to work out in the end 🙂

 

[Roog]

I am very lucky, (although a slightly bigger room in all dimensions wouldn't go amiss!) mine are set out in an equilateral triangle with little in or around the speakers. more importantly my nearest neighboring property is more than 15m away. The latter was the best HiFi upgrade i have ever experienced!

 

[RoA]

Like s*** but I place myself accordingly so not the biggest issue.

 

[Rui]

Even if they done you wrong, you forgive. If you let it eat you up, you'll never be able to reconcile the past. Today things are amicable with my ex and my daughter and her kids bring light into my life. And my second wife, coming up to 20 years of marriage (touch wood!), I would have not met her had I not been divorced. It's weird how life seems to work out in the end 🙂

yes it´s the truth, and we learn as we live as priorities change with age, one might not be capable to live anymore with our companion but children will always be first , we have to keep a good relation with their mother and always, there were good times , one shouldn´t keep hanging in the worst part of the relation as it is only natural ,no relation is perfect all the time ,my last relation will be forever , when i was 50 i was in a very dark place ,that´s when i met my companion for life, sometimes we have the luck of knowing such a person and the cherry on top ,she loves music as i do and the taste it´s almost the same, Music can heal deep wounds, to me is the same as an adiction but a good one, has i remenber when 11 i started to hear music in a daily basis, and the Beatles were the first band i love to hear ,remenber still playing both red and blue doble Lp´s when my father was working as he couldn´t be home before 4.30 in the afternoon ,he wouldn´t let me touch is stereo so i did it anyway and not too loud as some neighboor could coment with him hearing loud music at work hours.

 

[kramer2020]

With less than desirable room dimensions of just over 3m x 3m, I’ve finally settled on no ‘toe in’ and approx 25cm from front wall with 40cm from side wall.

Whether my stand mount Q Acoustics 3030i’s can be judged well positioned I will never know.
However having recently moved them further back to the wall and now with negative toe in, the bass does seem a lot tighter(?) and less boomy.

 

[Fandango Andy]

With less than desirable room dimensions of just over 3m x 3m, I’ve finally settled on no ‘toe in’ and approx 25cm from front wall with 40cm from side wall.

Whether my stand mount Q Acoustics 3030i’s can be judged well positioned I will never know.
However having recently moved them further back to the wall and now with negative toe in, the bass does seem a lot tighter(?) and less boomy.

They are on stands and you have experimented with position, so chances are they are pretty well positioned.

The original post was inspired by seeing so many speakers positioned 100% for the convenience of the other furniture and not for sound. The comments suggest most people do the best they can within their limitations.

 

[kramer2020]

They are on stands and you have experimented with position, so chances are they are pretty well positioned.

The original post was inspired by seeing so many speakers positioned 100% for the convenience of the other furniture and not for sound. The comments suggest most people do the best they can within their limitations.

I agree I was stretching it a bit with my post, but in terms of limitations my small ‘square’ is generally not ideal for hi fi… unless thinking has changed recently.

However looking at some of these set ups I’m well aware I’ve nothing to complain about.

Perhaps I need to search for a square room self help group 😆

 

[Navanski]

Not too bad. Front ported stand mounts about 2m apart.
Blu-tacked to solid toughened glass stands filled with stone chips. Toe-in to just beyond the normal listening position and with a slight upward angle of about 3 degrees.

 

[JDl]

I think I've done about the best I can regarding positioning of my speakers with the limitations of my living room shape taken into consideration.
On the plus side, we have carpeted concrete floors, stone walls with interior insulation, which has certainly helped to give acoustic damping, large heavy curtains a large really thick rug on the floor and my speakers are at least 1 meter from the back wall.
They do have to sit either side of a hearth and in a large inglenook but they're forward enough that they're not inside it.
One speaker is a little nearer to a wall than I would like.
That is one reason why I feel I'm better off with smaller speakers rather than large ones.

 

[Cricketbat70]

Unfortunately not as good as they should be. The area where I've put the TV and speakers was just wasted space when we moved in, it seemed the best place at the time. I have a pair of bipole surround speakers opposite the main speakers. Still wondering whether to ditch the surround sound just go back to stereo and put the speakers on the same wall the hifi is on. We hardly watch films in surround sound these days.

 

[JDl]

Unfortunately not as good as they should be. The area where I've put the TV and speakers was just wasted space when we moved in, it seemed the best place at the time. I have a pair of bipole surround speakers opposite the main speakers. Still wondering whether to ditch the surround sound just go back to stereo and put the speakers on the same wall the hifi is on. We hardly watch films in surround sound these days.

 

[JDl]

Why not give it a try and see how you like it.
You might end up preferring it set up like that.
That's a very nice looking room by the way.

 

[Messiah]

Still wondering whether to ditch the surround sound just go back to stereo.

Sacrilege! 😂

Personally, I would look at a TV unit big enough to house the separates so that you can get rid of the stand blocking the right speaker. (Although this could prove awkward for vinyl playback).

But, if you are considering ditching the Home Cinema side of things, perhaps you can try the speakers in the suggested position to see how it sounds?

 

[Cricketbat70]

Sacrilege! 😂

Personally, I would look at a TV unit big enough to house the separates so that you can get rid of the stand blocking the right speaker. (Although this could prove awkward for vinyl playback).

But, if you are considering ditching the Home Cinema side of things, perhaps you can try the speakers in the suggested position to see how it sounds?

To be fair. I want to put the hifi on a solid shelf fastened to the wall. Springy wooden floor in a Victorian terrace house doesn't play well with my turntable. It would put the hifi out of the way of the speaker. I did look at the idea of seeing if I could make the unit bigger and put all my hifi on there or just build a bigger one full stop.

 

[Cricketbat70]

Why not give it a try and see how you like it.
You might end up preferring it set up like that.
That's a very nice looking room by the way.

Thank you. My wife is in charge of the decor I haven't got a clue😂

 

[JDl]

To be fair. I want to put the hifi on a solid shelf fastened to the wall. Springy wooden floor in a Victorian terrace house doesn't play well with my turntable. It would put the hifi out of the way of the speaker. I did look at the idea of seeing if I could make the unit bigger and put all my hifi on there or just build a bigger one full stop.

Pull up the floor and reinforce it. I've done that in two Victorian houses, it's not so difficult.

 

[Cricketbat70]

Another one I want to sort out. My dining room. The speakers are too high. These are little Eltax Wave Mini speakers the same make as the speakers in my AV set up in the front room. I initially bought these to use as presence speakers in the AV set up but I ended up putting them in the dining room. I want to make a couple of shelves, lower down the chimney breast wall and then swap out the little Eltax for my dad's old Mordaunt Short MS10i Pearl edition speakers.

 

[Jasonovich]

Speaker positioning in my bedroom, I need to put right.
I am getting nearfield sound rather than spatial stereo.
We're looking to relocate either to Cambridgeshire or North Norfolk. This is likely to happen a year from now.
So it's very much let sleepy dogs lie.

Mind you, the new property might not be the panacea I was expecting.
When we start viewing properties, my wife will be thinking spacious kitchens and I'll be thinking is it Hifi doable 😂

 

[RoA]

My new listening space/living room, whilst perhaps not the worst possible, is far from ideal. I love the garden flat but the room is dead square which poses considerable problems. Size is limited too with around 4sq.m so I can't place speakers in the room or sit further from the back wall. So I resorted to having them facing diagonally in to room with me sitting either on the end of the sofa or, better, in my listening chair which then is away from walls.

Not ideal but it does the job. I have a strong bass mode because of the room shape but I can to some extent eliminate it with the above placement and further with Room DSP correction though I use this very sparingly and only around the room mode frequency.

 

[Cricketbat70]

Speaker positioning in my bedroom, I need to put right.
I am getting nearfield sound rather than spatial stereo.
We're looking to relocate either to Cambridgeshire or North Norfolk. This is likely to happen a year from now.
So it's very much let sleepy dogs lie.

Mind you, the new property might not be the panacea I was expecting.
When we start viewing properties, my wife will be thinking spacious kitchens and I'll be thinking is it Hifi doable 😂

That would definitely be mine and Rachel's approach.

 

[Rui]

i´m now most of the nights at my old mother house ,had to have music so, i started to open boxes,

but some had not what i was expecting but it works, only bad positioned speakers and not the ones i was looking for ,

i saw a photo here in the forum and i´ve seen in other places the system being positioned in a living room with backs to a window, wasn´t in every manual a drawing of where you should never put your equipment,

or near a window ,closed or not there´s always humidity at least at night that will cause problems to each component

or are this windows sealed and never opened? feels strange has all my life i heard to avoid places where humidity can enter and afect any system.
Is it today a good place to install one´s system?

 

[JDl]

I doubt it ....

 

[BenWatts]

I have considered recently with the help of many of you on this forum.

The speakers and the listening point form an equilateral triangle with each side measuring 3 meters.


Slightly oriented to the listening point.

Side pic to show the 50cm between speakers and wall. This is for the moment the best distance to my ears. Things can maybe be improved.



One easy and free improvement has been the positioning of power supplies far from the TT.
The amp is 40cm far from the TT. The streamer and its power supply are a bit closer but I have noticed a real improvement with the heed power supply on another shelf.

 

[Fandango Andy]

I think I've done about the best I can regarding positioning of my speakers with the limitations of my living room shape taken into consideration.
On the plus side, we have carpeted concrete floors, stone walls with interior insulation, which has certainly helped to give acoustic damping, large heavy curtains a large really thick rug on the floor and my speakers are at least 1 meter from the back wall.
They do have to sit either side of a hearth and in a large inglenook but they're forward enough that they're not inside it.
One speaker is a little nearer to a wall than I would like.
That is one reason why I feel I'm better off with smaller speakers rather than large ones.

Sounds better than most!

 

[Fandango Andy]

Unfortunately not as good as they should be. The area where I've put the TV and speakers was just wasted space when we moved in, it seemed the best place at the time. I have a pair of bipole surround speakers opposite the main speakers. Still wondering whether to ditch the surround sound just go back to stereo and put the speakers on the same wall the hifi is on. We hardly watch films in surround sound these days.

Probably as good as its going to get as long as you use them with the TV, and the TV is in that position. The only problem with not using them with the TV, is TV speakers are useless!