Speaker/equipment placement

Agreed.

I have noticed the same thing. It is a triumph to be able to afford such great equipment and very sad to have it so sub-optimally installed.

When we were shopping for a house I remember walking through this wonderful open room and thinking… ok, my system goes here. I had no idea how incredibly good the acoustics were and what a great decision it was. We only had a couple days to chose a house. Really lucked out.

If you think that's bad, try listening to a poorly integrated sub.

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Thats pretty funny Eric , we live in Southern California, all I need to do to hear a poorly integrated sub is pull up to any stoplight. Almost without fail a Subaru with 3 18” subs in the trunk will pull up beside me banging so loud you can literally hear the bolts in the vehicle rattling loose.

Maybe people move speakers into position for serious listening.

@bikeboy52 

😁🤣 Good one.

Maybe people move speakers into position for serious listening.

Highly doubtful...

Ask married owners of Magneplanars if they move them for serious listening and you’ll find it’s not so rare. With heavy cabinet speakers, especially spiked, yeah that’s not happening. 

New way to judge the strength of your marriage, speaker brand ,size and placement, we’ve been able to stay together for 26 years even though a pair of Apogges 24 inches from the back wall all the way through a pair of Kanta twos same placement.Tell your couples counselor that huh.

 My Maggies live about 4 feet into the room. Wife has no issues with them.

Just occurred to me she never found out how much it all cost though, I better delete this thread 😀

I’ve seen many photos of reviewers’ rooms over the years that make me question how accurate their reviews are.

@audiodwebe Amen!

@bikeboy52 “New way to judge the strength of your marriage, speaker brand ,size and placement, we’ve been able to stay together for 26 years even though a pair of Apogges 24 inches from the back wall”

Yes, a good way to verify the strength.

My partner put up with my ESS AMD 1ds in our tiny living room for a decade… then my Apogee Slant 8 for a while. I rewarded her with a house twice the size… now I have a big man cave (the lower floor) so she no longer has to look at them… although they are now nothing less than stunning (violin red Sonus Faber Amati Traditional).

Nice work ghdprentice ,on the marriage and the system, man I wanted those amd1s ,I was still in school and used to walk across the street to the Lafayette electronics store and listen to them. Happy listening!

I have a fairly small dedicated music room so speakers were chosen for a small room, Audio Physic Sitara 25, and are placed almost exactly to the manufacturers recommendation. Even then the room has bass problems so I use 2 small subwoofers for balance not volume. So choose your speakers for the room you have.

@henry53 “So choose your speakers for the room you have.”

+1.

Big agreement on this. If you are budget constrained… and most of us are… this is outstanding advice. I have heard some absolutely stunning tiny systems in tiny spaces. They have superior electronics and right sized speakers.

It is hard to do after decades of drooling over monster high-end speakers and finally being able to afford them. But the highest quality sound and most cost effective is to design around the space you have not a huge space you may never had.

I recently found this

https://www.vandersteen.com//media/files/Manuals/3asigmanual.pdf

speaker placement is pages 6-10.

@bikeboy52 “New way to judge the strength of your marriage, speaker brand ,size and placement, we’ve been able to stay together for 26 years even though a pair of Apogges 24 inches from the back wall”

By this standard I had a wonderful marriage for fifty-one years. Not only do I have eighteen cubic Ft. folded corner horns back in the room corners but also sixty-eight inches tall mid and tweeter horns on their stands five feet and four inches out into the room. My wife not only approved she also spent many hours helping me build the speakers. At her funeral last summer it was even mentioned how unusual it was that she was an audiophile.

+1 kingharold

Sorry for your loss Kingharold thats got to hard. Thanks for sharing that story with us all.