I was considering starting a thread asking simply how far apart people's speakers are...
While doing some math for my ~12 foot wide room, I found that the Cardas method puts the speakers only five feet apart. I set them there anyway just to try it and confirmed that that's just too narrow. The soundstage was all cluttered, for my taste anyway. So I decided to keep them six feet apart as a constant and tweak everything else as best as possible. I have sound proofing I can place for the side walls that gives me some flexability, at least with the reflection. My room is so crammed with furnishing and crap that I have yet to experienced any obvious trouble with resonances.
I set the listening position in an equilateral triangle as a starting point, but with slight toe-in it sounds really good there, so that's where it's staying.
I'm just wondering how far apart people keep their speakers, and how many people can score a room wider that 12' for this.
While doing some math for my ~12 foot wide room, I found that the Cardas method puts the speakers only five feet apart. I set them there anyway just to try it and confirmed that that's just too narrow. The soundstage was all cluttered, for my taste anyway. So I decided to keep them six feet apart as a constant and tweak everything else as best as possible. I have sound proofing I can place for the side walls that gives me some flexability, at least with the reflection. My room is so crammed with furnishing and crap that I have yet to experienced any obvious trouble with resonances.
I set the listening position in an equilateral triangle as a starting point, but with slight toe-in it sounds really good there, so that's where it's staying.
I'm just wondering how far apart people keep their speakers, and how many people can score a room wider that 12' for this.