Diagonal setup of system...


The other day I had to move my system to clean around the area. I carefully marked where everything was before so that I could put it back the way it was. In order to get to some places on the floor, I had to move the entire system over to a corner. I decided to hook it up to listen to music while I cleaned the area. To my surprise, my system sounded better than it did with a conventional setup, side to side. The system was setup diagonally, sub in the middle, in the corner and mains on each wall. Any reason for this? I am thinking of keeping it this way.
matchstikman

Showing 1 response by bomarc

Standing waves, which are a function of room dimensions more than speaker placement, are probably not the main factor here. What you've really done is changed the inflection points (where the sound bounces off the walls) and the arrival times of reflected sound.

Why do you think some of us keep saying that speaker-room interaction is more important than any other component of a system?