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Main speaker placement- fundamentally wrong?

Ever tried cupping your hands on your ears and immediately experience better sound? Ever notice that wild dingoes have really large ears and elephants too?

Would it be better to place main speakers on the left and the right sides of your listening position so you can capture more Sonic activity more directly? I've tried this with rear speakers and it works really well.

If God was more interested in listening to music, maybe he would've placed our ears on our forehead instead of on the sides of our skull.

Maybe someone can specially design cups to place on our ears to improve how Sonic activity is captured from main speakers. 

emergingsoul
ghdprentice
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When in high school we had a Sears "portable stereo" on a metal stand. The speakers were detachable. My friend and I would put the speakers on the floor and take turns putting our head in between. It greatly improved the bass and dynamic range. Not so great for setting up a soundstage... more like headphones.

 

@noromance

And they are so flattering. They may become a look.

rbstehno
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I tried this 20 years ago at a dave Mathew’s concert in the rose garden. We had a concrete wall behind us and when I cupped my ears, the sound cleaned up drastically because I wasn’t hearing the sound bounce off the concrete wall.

jperry
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https://pt.audio/2025/01/05/modified-room-coupling-method-for-speaker-positioning/

emergingsoul OP
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@jperry 

This is a hell of an article referenced. And a few really nice pictures which makes it nice for me.

 

jperry
2,454 posts
 

@emergingsoul 

I thought you might find it interesting (I did) and I think it might be better than wearing dixie cups on your ears ;-)

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