Question about speaker angle


I've always been under the impression that your front main speakers should be angled so that the "face" of the speaker is basically perpendicular with the listener's face when viewing the speakers from the sweet spot. I do however see others placing the speakers parallel or inline with the surface of the wall behind the speakers. I'm wondering, how much loss to the sonic sound stage this creates.

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Showing 1 response by erik_squires

Really depends, but often included in the manual.  Focal likes little to no toe-in.

Also, some find B&W sounds much better on midrange axis than tweeter axis.  Meaning, you want to sit lower, or angle the speaker up.

As a speaker maker Troels Gravesen once commented, and I agree, even when we try to design our speakers to be listened to on tweeter axis sometimes the design just doesn't work out and your best listening position is somewhere in between the tweeter and the midrange.