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In Reply to: RE: Why don't they Include proper stands for optimal performance? posted by Audiolover718 on October 21, 2016 at 18:52:42
Back when I had MMG's I also found that lateral positioning improved imaging. However, there's a tradeoff here, in that the short speakers (MMG's and 1.x) freq response can go off if you don't tilt them back so the listener is on axis.
Also, while metal stands improve the sound, they add weight and cost and reduce wife acceptance factor, so I think it makes more sense for them to let the customer add them if he wants.
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For sure on the MMG'S. I actually have my 1.6 tilted down due to my listening position. Whatever mechanism used, keeping them perfectly laterally parallel to each other, regardless of front or rear tilt is crucial. I just "tuned up" my sound as my floor has settled over the years and found that one Maggie had shifted to the right about 1 degree, and the other left about one degree, and once corrected they simply imaged better and soundstaging became much more coherent. It's hugely important to keep the sides squared up vs. Trapezoidal or parallegram. I would not be able to have done this with the stock feet, and wouldn't have anywhere near the magical sound. Unless your floor is absolutely perfect, which many of us don't have, the stock feet will almost surely keep the speakers from delivering.
I know what you mean -- my floor is absolutely awful, that side of the house is sinking because there's a rotten beam in the frame. Check out the right hand woofer panels, they're actually leaning against the mantle:
For now, I got some stuff to shim the feet with and once I know where the speakers are going to live I'll do something more permanent, and brace the woofers as well.
Exactly josh! 1-2° off can really throw of the sound. I was actually quite startled at the improvement after squaring them up.
Edits: 10/22/16
I bought a laser measure for doing that and now I can't find it! How the hell can you lose a laser measure?
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