How far away from your speakers are you?

I put them were they sound the best. With my Vandersteen’s, Richard supplies a chart and guidelines with various locations per your room and set-up. For the most part, I’m close to those recommendations. I have roughly a 12’-4” x 17’-6” room, the speakers on the short wall on either side of the fireplace, (I have diffusion panels over the fireplace opening when not in use), 3’ into the room (front face), about 3’-8” (inside face) from the side walls. About 9’ from my listening position.
I tweak them occasionally (can’t stop myself sometimes, but then usually get put back on the prior marks), but they remain in that general position. 

But really, it’s where they sound best to me (and goodness knows I’ve tried many locations) provide the best soundstage width and depth (very important to me) and imaging between and beyond. But of course, we can’t fix poorly recorded albums. 

I’m single, it’s my living room, so can and will do what I want, within reason. As an architectural designer, of course I think of aesthetics as well, but the sound over-rides what may offend others.

About 10 feet. Speakers wall mounted just above head hight

Speakers (Maggies) 6' from Front Wall. 7' Center to Center. 10' to Chair. Chair 4' from Back Wall. Toe to about 2' outside of shoulders. Measured with Tape. Sub 10 O'clock 4' outside of Left Front & level, and the other Sub 3 O'Clock. On right wall. Have another 20x14 Open space that adjoins with half wall and allows bass to escape. Still enjoy cutting lights off and tripping on the image.

Based on my room constrictions I've places my Maggie's 44" from the wall, 96" apart and 144" from my listening position. They are slightly toed in. Ideally I would like a larger room, but all in all it sounds pretty darn good

Jim Smith book is excellent BTW..used copies are available..

I use the standard of 1/3 the length of the room to place the speakers from the front wall. My dedicated room is 21x15 and my speakers are 7’ out from the front wall. Then I used Jim Smiths recommendation of sitting 120% (+ or -) of the width of the speakers to the listening position. I used these Dimensions to start and then moved the speakers/chair, speaker toe in, to fine tune. 

600 miles, I sold them to a guy in Michigan.

@steve59 Geez how powerful is your amplifier?!?

short answer, about 35' and two walls.:-)

But my primary listening seat is about 12' from the speakers, which are about 10' apart, 4' from the built-ins, which total 2' from the back wall.  There's another 7-10 feet behind the listening chairs.  Phenomenal sound stage and bass extension (also: big speakers). When i say this i mean compared to the same speakers before i had a dedicated room, and to what i most often hear elsewhere.  Yes, its very dependent on being in the center sat for a true image.

Room is slightly irregular but overall think 18' x 25', less wall depths.  As i add more and more vinyl and brick-a-brack to the various cabinets the (relatively new) room is becoming deader and therefore better.

Slight toe-in, essentially each speaker aimed just outboard of the (wide) center chair's arms.

G

16 feet from your speakers and only 8 feet apart !

8 feet apart and 8 feet to my ears , an equilateral triangle ,
39" from front and 30.5 from the wall , not perfect but close to the
Cardas method .

4 and half feet from the back wall. My room is 10 feet wide and 16 feet long. More o less according with Mr. Cardas method. Works fine for me.

About 9 feet dead center of speakers.Toed in a wee bit facing me on the couch.
microfibre couch absorbs any thing else getting past my ears.

 Sounds great to me.

I started off with the rule of 1/3's and adjusted from there.

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funny how the chair never moves...

The Leica and or Bosch laser measures are simple, efficient

The A-26 is a lovely speaker, set a baseline w measurements and then experiment.

enjoy the music.

@steve59 , bet they sound great.

We could measure this. But why?

Every room has areas where frequencies reinforce and areas where they cancel. Every speaker has its own individual frequency response. What matters is where in the room the response of the speakers combines with the response of the room to result in a fairly smooth response where you sit when you listen.

That’s one thing that matters. But not the only one. For imaging the speakers must also be precisely equidistant to the listener. There is also the timing of first reflections to consider. There is also a balance of direct to reflected sound.
Even in a dedicated room there are reflections from the components themselves. It might seem like a dedicated room means no compromises. Let me assure you, there is no such thing as no compromises! Its all compromises!

How far am I from my speakers? Check this out. https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367 The last picture in the series is me measuring one corner of one speaker. Three corners of both speakers are done like this because once having spent days and days fine tuning with SPL meter and by ear the last thing I want is to ever have to go through all that again. So the tape is marked and they can be replaced precisely again and again. Because that’s how critically important precise speaker placement is to obtaining the kind of killer sound I crave.

How far am I from those speakers? I haven’t the foggiest. Look this system over. Read the comments. Think of it. This guy has no clue how far to the speakers. Don’t know how far away. Don’t know how far apart.

That right there should tell you everything you need to know about how important that one is.

850 miles. 

There's no way I can measure the distance exactly, but my head is a couple inches past 7' from the speakers.  I did my share of experimenting/auditioning, too, before I settled on that distance.  And this five+ decade audiophile continues to be a happy guy on the hifi front.

Okay so first you build the room....