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In Reply to: RE: I have a hunch. posted by josh358 on November 21, 2015 at 17:55:32
The manual that came with Magnepan 1.7's advises setting the speakers apart 50-60% of the distance from the listening position.
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The manual tells you to start there and then move them apart until you start to lose the center image, and then move them back again. That would give you the widest possible image without a hole in the middle.
It isn't correct.
Stereo loudspeakers should be at +/-30 degrees from the listening access -- the standard established by Blumlein when he, well, invented stereo. That's what recordings are mixed for and some unconventional loudspeaker arrangements aside, they never sound right otherwise.
"Stereo loudspeakers should be at +/-30 degrees from the listening access"
Is this a recommendation for an equilateral triangle? (30 plus 30 equals 60, thus the other two angles are 60 as well?)
Yep.
When you 6 or even 8 panels, sometimes contiguous others not, what would you recommend to be placed "+/-30 degrees from the listening access"?
Tweeter, or maybe half way between the mid and the tweeter? The 11 kHz range is particularly important for lateral localization.
With Tympanis I hear a different spread for the woofers than I do for higher frequencies but in the IVA's this produces a pleasant spread with a slight vagueness in the imaging of instruments with low fundamentals, rather than a major disturbance as it did in the 1D. Also, this is listening too close -- the farther you are the less you'll hear that issue because the angular separation is lower.
But whatever happens the higher frequencies are more important for localization -- my computer speakers have a sub crossed at 350 next to me, and I never notice it there.
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