Speaker Asylum: Re: Thank you for the reply! *nt* by el34eh@yahoo.com

Hi again StylinLP -

After giving your room measurement much throught I recall only knowing two people with rooms of that size and was trying to remember the way? that both had their speakers set-up!

One friend whom name is Jeff has a room which is about 23'w. x 30'l. x 10'h. ceiling at the rear end of this room

[ The Listening section. If you will. ]

which extends into a catheral ceiling of say about 24' h. at the end where his speakers are located, he firing them down the longwall. Yet his Loudspeaker system consist of either Inner ~ Sound Eros Mk.2s or Totem Acoustics Mani 2s. As I recall the actual placement of either of them and in what manner they were driven by either a pair of Quicksilver M 4s or VTL 250s MonoBlocks in which case made it easier for him to locate either amp between each speaker with longer Intterconnects and shorter LS Cables of about 8.5' long.

The speakers which were placed at 5'7" from the sidewalls and about 8' into the room from the rearwall with the sofa positioned at 7' -8' from the Listening wall in front of speakers. He has them positions with a 45 degrees of toe in. And they sounded very nice. But by them being ribbon hybrids of sort they to had a somewhat smaller sound window as well, for their soundstage. But what was there was purely Magical! this of course being with the Inner ~ Sound Eros Mk.2s.

With the Totem Mani 2s on the other hand he would normally have them powered by either a Densen DM 30 or Symphonic Line RG - 1 Mk.3s at about 6' from sidewalls and about 10' into the room from the rearwall and toed in at 48.5 degrees with them aimed at a spot 3' in front of the sweetspot at the center of a very long sofa of about 91" long.

Said sofa was again positioned about a 3rd. of the lenght of the room from the wall behind it. As the normal rules apply use the common most methods of 3rds ~ 4ths and 5ths. as the general rule to divide for placement of both speakers into room from the rearwall and the listening seat/sofa at about the same from frontwall. Make certain again that the seating arrangement is centered between the sidewalls itself as this will cause it to avoid nodes caused by reflecting surfaces and allow for a better focusing of soundstage. Just play with the amount of toe in until everything snaps into place with a space of 10' to 12' apart between the speakers themselves ~ just play with this for about 45 mins or so and I think that you could find an area/zone where you have a much larger soundstage without lost to center focus. Afterall this is the effect which you're attempting to achieve is it not?. Then be willing to play with placement again and again - then if all else fails? it's simply because your speakers are to small and aren't filling the room ~ nothing more then Laws of Physics and you might want to consider using the shortwall instead. Fair enough to find out with a little bit of effort and only requires moving some furniture around.

Just trust your eyes and don't judge the speaker location with your eyes. As it might appear to look wrong at first until you hear the end results that is.

Just play around for a period of 45 mins. marking the speakers locations with each move, then come back tomorrow and listen once more, and then finally return them to they original positions and see if you don't notice a decline in both Sound and Musicality?

At this point you should be able to notice a better balanced sound and a deeper soundstage.

Don't knock what you don't understand without giving it a try or two. It'll come together when you apply these methods ~ Just be willing to listen and have an open mind. that's all!.

Regards,
- EL34EH