Many years ago John Rutan at Audio Connections in Verona, NJ had a listening room configured with the speakers along a diagonal of the room, rather than parallel to a wall. It sounded great with all the speakers I heard, probably four pair. For the past couple of years, I’ve finally had a room that’s amenable to such a setup, and it works out really well. Now, I’m using dipole speakers, but none of the speakers John played for me were dipoles, and they all sounded good in that configuration, so it’s probably worth a try if you have an appropriate room. And using a real time analyzer app, I seem to be getting pretty flat response, although I can’t compare it to the response in prior rooms with parallel configurations because I only discovered app after moving to my present house.
Question on Speaker Placement
Based on the shape and content of my listening room, I have one speaker with a back wall directly behind it ( roughly 2') while the other speaker is backed by the open entrance into another room. What are the sonic implications of this arrangement? I'm limited in my ability to test alternative positions, although by widening the distance between the speaker by about 2', I can back the 2nd speaker with a wall. This would be about a 13 ' distance between the speakers. The speakers are PSB Imagine X2T. Hope this makes sense and thanks.
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